PUBH 5520 - BIOLOGICAL AGENTS

Course topics
WEEK TOPIC (links added throughout semester) Lab Exercise
1 (HW) Introduction, Important diseases, Videos: Confronting None
the Microbial Menace, Threading the NEIDL

2 Lab Safety training, BSL1 and BSL2 None

3 Microbial structures, Microscopy Staining and
Microscopy

4 Water quality Water quality

Water Quality lab questions

5 (HW) Surface pathogens and nosocomial infections Surface sampling

6 Food Microbiology and Contamination E. coli in food

7 (HW) Air quality and bioterrorism Air sampling

8 Microbial control disk diffusion
method

Homeworks
Homework One
Homework Two
Homework Three
Additional links will be activated throughout the semester.

Biological Agents is designed to introduce MS-level students to the organisms that cause human diseases. Most lectures will be accompanied by a laboratory section, during which the students will demonstrate the concepts introduced in the lectures.

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS SYLLABUS

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Term Paper
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