COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY PRACTIVE II

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIK 5020 CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY PRACTIVE II COMPULSORY 2 2 0 5

Offered By

Microbiology

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Microbiology
Laboratory Medicine

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is after following the clinical microbiology laboratory applications-I, to provide understanding basic princibles of mycological, virological, serological and immunological tests are being used in routine, additionaly how to apply and itrpert the test results for identifying microroganism.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Can understand the basic operating principles of laboratory tests for the mycological identification tests
2   Can understand the basic operating principles of laboratory tests for the virology and serologic identification tests
3   Can understand the basic operating principles of laboratory tests for the immunologic identification tests
4   Understand how to applicate the laboratory tests
5   Be able to associate laboratory test results with microorganism
6   Be able to interpret the tests for identification of bacteria, viruses and fungus used to distinguish from each other.
7   Be able to apply identification tests for autoimmun diseases.
8   Be able to apply identification tests for fungus and viruses.
9   Be able to identify the virus and fungus from unknown samples.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Preparation of materials and dyes for the purpose of direct examination, Preparation of mycologic media mycological for the primary isolation.
2 Preparation of speciemens for direct examination and culture to the mycologic media, Evaluate the cultures and apply further fungal identification process I
3 Apply further fungal identification process II
4 Identification of Zygomycetes group molds according to glass culture results ( Absidia app, Mucor spp, Rhizopus spp)
5 Searching for fungal nucleic acid by polymerase chain reaction
6 Principles of methods of serological testing, implementation and evaluation of results
7 The methods used in the diagnosis of viral infections; Cell cultures
8 Immuno chemical methods used to identify micro-organisms
9 Confirmation tests for HIV and HCV, Evaluate the western blot results
10 Molecular diagnostic tests; Detection of Hantavirus by PCR
11 Autoimmun antibodies and their roles I
12 Autoimmun antibodies and their roles II

Recomended or Required Reading

Larone DH. Medically Important Fungi. 5th edition ASM Press Washington Dc, 2011.
Manuel of Clinical Microbiology ( ASM Press) 2010 Versalovic J ( editorial chief)
Muray PR, Rosenthal KS, Pfaller MA, Medical Microbiology. Sixth Edition, Canada Mosby Elsevier, 2009; 157-169
Koneman EW, Allen SD, Janda WM, Schreckenberker PC, Winn WC, Color Atlas and Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology: Fifth Edition, Philadelphia, Lippincott-Raven, 1997; 1225-1260
Forbes BA, Sahm DF, Weissfeld AS. Bailey&Scott s Diagnostic Microbiology. Twelfth Edition, Philadelphia, Mosby Elsevier, 2007;718-776
Yardımcı Kaynaklar: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Mikoloji, Seroloji ve Immünoloji laboratuvarları Test Rehberleri

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 LAB LABORATORY
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.10 + LAB* 0.20 + FIN*0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.10 + LAB* 0.20 + RST*0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 4 48
Tutorials 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 6 6
Preparing presentations 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 136

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.1553
LO.25353
LO.35353
LO.4553
LO.5533343
LO.6533
LO.754
LO.8553
LO.9523

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