Microbiology
Microbiology
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Infection
Infection An infection is the invasion of an organism’s body tissues by disease causing agents, their multiplication and the reaction of host ti...
Hypersensitivity
Hypersensitivity Hypersensitivity refers to a condition in which immune response results in excessive reaction leading to tissue damage, disease o...
HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTION
HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTION(NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION) Nosocomial infection comes from Greek words “ nosus ” meaning disease and &ld...
Sterilisation and Disinfection
Sterilisation It is a process by which an article, surface or medium is made free of all microorganisms either in the vegetative or spore form.
Immunization
Immunization- Immunization is defined as the procedure by which the body is prepared to fight against a specific disease. It is used to induce the ...
Immunity
Immunity- Immunity is defined as the capacity of the body to resist pathogenic agents. It is the ability of body...
Bacteria Toxins
Toxins- Bacteria produce toxins or poisonous substances by their growth. Toxins are complex proteins or substances much like proteins. There are tw...
Immunoglobulins
Immunoglobulins (Gamma Globulins)- The term immunoglobulin was introduced in 1959 for serum proteins formerly known as gamma globulins. Immunogl...
Disease Producing RNA Viruses
Disease Producing RNA Viruses- An RNA virus is a virus that has RNA (ribonucleic acid) as its genetic material. Anoth...
Disease Producing DNA Viruses
Disease Producing DNA Viruses A. Variola and Vaccinia Viruses 1. Variola Viruses (small pox virus) Variola major ...
Viruses
Viruses- Viruses may be defined as extremely small obligate intracellular living forms containing only one type of nucleic acid either DNA or RNA. ...
Entamoeba histolytica
Parasites and Vectors- Parasite- An organism which derives its nourishment at the cost of another organism (host) in or on...
Fungi
Fungi- A fungus is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the ...
Gram-Negative Bacteria
Gram-Negative Bacteria- Gram-negative bacteria lose the crystal violet stain (and take the color of the red counterstain...
Gram Positive Bacteria
Gram Positive Bacteria- The Gram-Positive bacteria take the Crystal violet stain used in the test, and then appear to be purple-colour when seen th...
Bacteria
Bacteria- Bacterial are unicellular prokaryotic, microscopic organisms and the unit of measurement used for measuring bacteria is micron (1 micron ...