Special Microbiology and related techniques.
Classification of microorganisms.
Pathogenesis, Lab diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention and Control of the bacterial human pathogens.
Gram-positive cocci: Staphylococci, Streptococci. Gram-negative cocci: Neisseria. Gram-positive rods: Mycobacterium, Corynebacterium, Listeria monocytogenes. Gram-negative rods: Enterobacteriaceae, Vibrionaceae, Pseudomonadaceae, Campylobactr, Helicobacter, Bordetella, Brucella. Spore-forming Gram-positive bacilli: Clostridium and Bacillus. Spirochaetes, Mycoplasma, Legionella pneumoniae, Rickettsie, Chlamydiae.

Pathogenesis, Lab diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention and Control of the viral human pathogens.
Characteristics and classification of viruses. Virus structure: non- enveloped and enveloped viruses. Viral replication: life cycle of viruses with animal and prokaryote hosts. Mechanisms of viral pathogenesis. Antiviral drugs.
RNA viruses: Orthomyxovirus, Rotavirus, Filovirus, Retrovirus, Togaviridae, Paramyxoviridae, Flaviviridae, Picornavirus, Delta virus.
DNA viruses: Poxvirus, Herpesvirus, Hepadnavirus, Papillomavirus.

Prions. Hospital-acquired infections.