Unit I: Fundamentals of Microbiology and Infectious Disease 

1. Microbes Shape Our History  

2. Basic Concepts of Infectious Disease   

3. Observing Microbes   

4. Living Chemistry: From Atoms to Cells   

5. Cell Biology of Bacteria and Eukaryotes   

6. Bacterial Growth, Nutrition, and Differentiation   

 

Unit II: Essential Biology and Control of Infectious Agents  

7. Bacterial Metabolism   

8. Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology  

9. Bacterial Genomes and Evolution   

10. Bacterial Diversity   

11. Eukaryotic Microbes and Invertebrate Infectious Agents  

12. Viruses   

13. Sterilization, Disinfection, and Antibiotic Therapy   

 

Unit III: The Immune System 

14. The Human Microbiome   

15. The Immune System: Inflammation and Innate Immunity   

16. The Immune System: Adaptive Immunity   

17. Vaccines, Diagnostics, and Immune Disorders   

 

Unit IV: Infectious Diseases 

18. Microbial Pathogenesis   

19. Infections of the Skin and Eye   

20. Infections of the Respiratory Tract   

21. Systemic Infections   

22. Infections of the Digestive System   

23. Infections of the Urinary and Reproductive Tracts   

24. Infections of the Central Nervous System

 

Unit V: Epidemiology and Biotechnology

25. Diagnostic Clinical Microbiology   

26. Epidemiology: Tracking Infectious Diseases  

27. Environmental and Food Microbiology