3rd year medical bacteriology curriculum

(MICBac-31) First Semester (3 Credits)

30 Hours Theory (2 Hours/Week)
30 Hours Practical (2 Hours/Week)

Objectives: To give comprehensive information about the most important and prevalent bacteria with more emphasis on the bacteria that causes the major diseases in our country.

Theory Lectures

1. Bacterial cell & classification
2. Growth requirements, bacterial growth & culture media.
3. Sterilization, Disinfections & Antimicrobial agents.
4. Microbial Genetics.
5. Staphylococci
6. Streptococci and Pneumococci.
7. Neisseria, Corynebacterium, Mycobacterium and Listeria.
8. Enterobacteriaceae.
9. Yersinia, Pasteurela & Francisela, Acinetobacter, Aeromonas & Plesiomonas, Campylobacters & Helicobacter pylori.

1. Other Gram-negative bacteria: Pseudomonas. Vibrio, Haemophilus, Brucella & Bordetella.
2. Aerobic Bacilli-Anthrax & Clostridia
3. Spirochetes, Rickettsiae, Chlamydiae & Mycoplasma.
4. Miscellaneous organisms (Legionella pneumophila & Bacteroides).
5. Urine, stool samples & Body fluids.
6. Introduction to Medical Mycology.
7. Mycetoma.
8. Dermatophytosis.
9. Candidiasis.
10. Cryptococcossis.
11. Histoplasmosis
12. Blastomycosis and Aspergillosis.
13. Sporotrichosis.

 

Practical sessions

1. Instructions, staining and instrumentations.
2. Media, pure culture, sterilization and colony morphology.
3. Staphylococci.
4. Streptococci.
5. Neisseria, Mycobacterium, Corynebacterium.
6. Enterobacteriaceae: Lactose fermenters and non-lactose fermenters.
7. Other Gram-negative bacteria: Pseudomonas. Vibrio, Campylobacter, Haemophilus & Brucella.
8. Clostrium & aerobic bacilli.
9. Diagnostic Microbiology: Urine & stool samples.
10. Diagnostic Microbiology: Blood, CSF, sputum & swabs.
11. Introductory review about the techniques in Mycology.
12. Mycetoma and Dermatophytosis.
13. Candidiasis.
14. Cryptococcossis and Histoplasmosis.
15. Blastomycosis, Aspergillosis and Sporotrichosis

3rd year medical virology curriculum

(MICVir-32) Second Semester (3 credits)

30 Hours Theory (2 Hours/ Week)
30 Hours Practical (2 Hours/ Week)

Objectives: The efforts of this course is to provide complete information about viruses in respect to the pathogenesis, new techniques of diagnosis, and modern vaccine production as well as new generations of antiviral agents.

Theory Lectures

1. General prosperities & classification of viruses.
2. Viral replication and genetics.
3. Cultivation of viruses, effect of virus on host cells, pathogenesis of viral disease (acute, chronic, latent, and slow viral infection).
4. Prevention and treatment of viral infections: interferon, antiviral chemotherapy and viral vaccines.
5. Medically important DNA viruses, enveloped and non-enveloped.
6. Paramyxoviruses.
7. RNA enveloped viruses orthomyxoviruses.
8. Hepatitis viruses
9. Rhabdovirus , RNA non-enveloped viruses

1. Reo, corona virus, SARS
2. Retroviruses
3. Retroviruses
4. Oncogenic viruses.
5. Bacteriophage

 

Practical sessions

1. Introduction to practical virology
2. Methods of diagnosis of viral infections
3. Preparation of tissue culture.
4. Clinical specimens collection and handling
5. Inoculation of clinical sample in tissue culture, in embryo-egg, and in lab. Animals.
6. Detection of viruses using immuno-electon microscopy (IEM).
7. Detection of viruses using In situ hybridization (ISH).
8. Detection         of       viruses         using        immunocytochemistry             (ICC) and Immunohistochemistry (IHC).
9. Detection of viruses using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

1. Viral titration
2. Indirect methods: serology (CFT and hemagglutination inhibition test).
3. Detection of bacteriophages
4. Clinical applications

Medical parasitology curriculum

(MICPar-32) Second Semester (3 credits)

30 Hours Theory (2 Hours/Week)
30 Hours Practical (2 Hours/Week)

Objectives: The efforts of this course are to study the medically important parasites with a special emphasis on the common and important parasitic diseases in Iraq.

Theory Lectures

1. Introduction, classification, definitions and host-parasite relationships.
2. Nematodes: Introduction, Enterobius vermicularis, Trichuris trichiura.
3. Nematodes: Ascaris lumbricoides, Strongyloides stercoralis.
4. Hookworms: Trichostrongylus, Trichinella spiralis, filaria.
5. Trematodes: Introduction, blood flukes: Schistosoma. Other flukes: Intestinal, pulmonary, hepatic.
6. Cestodes: Introduction, Echinococcus granulosus and multilocularis.
7. Cestodes: Taenia solium, Taenia saginata, Dipylidium caninum, Diphyllobothrium latum.
8. Introduction to protozoa, Amoebae: Entamoeba histolytica, Nonpathogenic Amoebae (E.coli, E.dispar, E.gengivalis), Opportunistic Amoebae (Naegleria fowleri, Acanthamoeba spp.).
9. Flagellates: Intestinal, Oral and Genital Flagellates (Giardia lamblia, Trichomonas vaginalis, T.tenax).
10. Blood and tissue flagellates: Old World Leishmaniasis (Leishmania donovani, L. infantum, L.tropica, L. major and L. aethiopica).
11. Blood and tissue Flagellates: New World Leishmaniasis (L.braziliensis complex, L.mexicana complex, L. peruviana and L.chagasi
12. Blood and Tissue Flagellates Trypanosomes (Trypanosom abrucei T.gambiense, T.rhodesiense, T.cruzi).
13. Sporozoa: Cryptosporidium parvum, Balantidium coli.
14. Sporozoa: Malaria
15. Sporozoa: Toxoplasma gondii, Sarcocystis and Babesia.
16. Medical Entemology.

Practical sessions

1. Introduction and methods used for parasitic diseases diagnosis
2. Enterobius, Trichuris.
3. Ascaris, Strongyloides.
4. Hookworms, Trichostrongylus. filaria. Trichinella spiralis.
5. Trematodes: Blood flukes: Schistosomes.
6. Tissue Trematodes: Intestinal, pulmonary, hepatic.
7. Taenia, Echinococcus.
8. Dipylidium caninum, Diphyllobothrium.
9. Entamoeba histolytica, E. coli, other amoebae.

1. Leishmania and Trypanosoma.
2. Giardia, Trichomonas, Ciliates: Balantidium coli
3. Malaria (Plasmodium vivax, P.malariae, P.ovale, P.falciparum)
4. Toxoplasma, Sarcocystis.
5. Medically important insects.