Aim High Colleges, Inc.

National Highway, Buluan, Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay

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Microbiology and Parasitology

This course subject is intended for BS Midwifery II which has 6 units, 3 units for lectures and 3 units for
laboratory. The students will have to demonstrate the content knowledge of the microbial world and
chemical principles; compare and contrast prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells and differentiate
epidemiology from HIV, and AIDS.

Pre-Final Period
Unit 1: The Microbial World and Chemical Principles
 A brief history of microbiology

 Microbes and Human Welfare

 Microbes and Human Disease

 The structure of Atoms

 How Atoms form Molecules: Chemical Bonds

 Chemical Reactions

 Inorganic Compounds

 Organic Compounds

Unit 2: Functional Anatomy of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells

 An overview of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells

 The size, shape, and arrangement of bacterial cells

 The cell wall

 The structures external and internal to the cell wall

 flagella and cilia

 The cell wall and glycolyx

 The Plasma (Cytoplasmic) Membrane

 Cytoplasm

 Organelles

 The evolution of Eukaryotes

Final Period

Unit 3: Microbial Metabolism, Microbial Growth and Microbial Genetics

 Catabolic and Anabolic reactions

 enzymes, energy production, and carbohydrate catabolism

 Lipids and Protein catabolism

 The requirements for growth, culture media, and the growth of bacterial cultures

 The rate of Microbial death

 Physical and Chemical Methods of Microbial control

 The regulation of Bacterial Gene Expression

 Mutation: Change in the Genetic Material

 Genes and Evolution

Unit 4: Epidemiology, Disorders Associated with The Immune System

 Pathology, Infection and Disease

 The Spread of Infection

 Hypersensitivity, autoimmune diseases and reactions related to the Human Leukocyte Antigen

(HLA) Complex

 Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Prepared by:

Arfaida A. Ladja
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