General Microbiology
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General Microbiology

Bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites — what they are, how they cause disease, and how the laboratory finds them.

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  1. 02Lecture 02OpenAnimatedBacterial Structure and Classification 1Why did amoxicillin cure Omar’s pneumonia but not Sami’s? A bacterium taken apart, layer by layer — nucleoid, plasmids, ribosomes and cytosol inside; the membrane and peptidoglycan wall; capsule, flagella and pili outside; the endospore it becomes to survive — and the answer: a good antibiotic hits a structure our cells lack.32 slides~60 min
  2. 03Lecture 03OpenAnimatedBacterial Structure and Classification 2Why did the stain miss Sami’s bacterium, and what named it instead? The same two students, now in the laboratory — how bacteria are ranked and named; their shapes and arrangements; the Gram stain read on the wall itself; the acid-fast stain for waxy mycobacteria; and the molecular methods (PCR, G+C, 16S rRNA, whole genome sequencing, MALDI-TOF) that name what stains and culture miss.36 slides~60 min
  3. 08Lecture 08OpenAnimatedOrientation to Gram-Positive Bacteria of Medical Importance (new)The lecturer’s slides in five stops after the identification tree: the staphylococci and their tests, diseases and toxins; the streptococci by haemolysis; the spore-formers Bacillus and Clostridium; and the non-spore-forming rods Listeria, Corynebacterium and Mycobacterium.60 slides~60 min
  4. 09Lecture 09OpenAnimatedOrientation to Gram-Negative Bacteria of Medical Importance (new)The lecturer’s slides in four stops after the identification tree: the diplococci (Neisseria); the coccobacilli Haemophilus, Bordetella and Brucella; the bacilli sorted by lactose, with Shigella and Pseudomonas; and the curved bacteria Vibrio cholerae and Helicobacter pylori.48 slides~60 min