Lectures investigate the unseen world of bacteria, viruses, and other microbes with special emphasis on microbial structure, metabolism, classification, methods of control, disease progression, and antibiotic resistance. The laboratory includes basic microbiological techniques such as propagating, counting, staining, aseptic techniques, growth analysis, and identification of various microbes. This course features applied learning in the form of diagnostic case studies. This is a writing-intensive course where they write research and review papers.
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Spring