Laboratory diagnosis of bacterial infections. Part 1. 1.

Microscopy: standard light microscopy, dark-ground microscopy, phase microscopy, phase contrast microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, electronic microscopy. 2. Methods of sterilization and disinfection. 3. Bacteria isolated by culture in vitro (solid, liquid media) and in vivo (laboratory animals). 4. Bacterial identification by : microscopic morphology, colonial morphology, biochemical tests, antigenic structure by use various immunological techniques: antigenic typing, bacteriophage typing, bacteriocine typing, pathogenicity tests. 5. Tests of antimicrobial drugs (disc diffusion and dilution). 6. Diagnosis serological (agglutination, precipitation, complement fixation, immunofluorescence, radioimmunoassay, enzyme-linked immunosorbent-assay). Part 2. 1. Laboratory diagnosis of Staphylococcus infection. 2. Laboratory diagnosis of B-haemolytic streptococcal infections 3. Laboratory diagnosis of pneumococcal infection. 4. Laboratory diagnosis of meningococcal and gonococcal infections. 5. Laboratory diagnosis of infections with Corynebacterium Diphteriae and Listeria monocytogenes. 6. Laboratory diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and leprae infections. 7. Laboratory diagnosis of Bacillus anthracis infection. 8. Laboratory diagnosis of Clostridium infection. 9. Laboratory diagnosis of Salmonella infection. 10.Laboratory diagnosis of Bacillary dysentery. 11.Laboratory diagnosis of Escherichia Coli infection. 12.Laboratory diagnosis of Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Proteus, Serratia, Citobacter, Ps. aeruginosa infections. 13.Laboratory diagnosis of Vibrio cholerae infection. 14.Laboratory diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection. 15.Laboratory diagnosis of Haemophilus infections. 16.Laboratory diagnosis of Bordetella infections. 17.Laboratory diagnosis of Brucella infections. 18.Laboratory diagnosis of Bacteroides infections. 19.Laboratory diagnosis of Treponema pallidum infection. 20.Laboratory diagnosis of leptospirosis 21.Laboratory diagnosis of human chlamydial infections. 22.Laboratory diagnosis of Rickettsia infections. 23.Laboratory diagnosis of Mycoplasmal infections.