CLS 411 Clinical Bacteriology

The first part of this course deals with the theoretical and practical aspects of chemotherapeutic agents, their modes of action, methods of evaluation and susceptibility testing, and mechanism of microbial resistance. The second part deals with brief description of host-parasite relationships, followed by detailed study of structure and physiology of Gram - & + cocci, aerobic spore and non-spore forming bacilli and the mycobacteria, their structures, diseases and clinical presentation, pathogenesis, modes of transmission, laboratory diagnosis, prevention and control.