Introduction to Microbiology
Session 1: Introduction to Microbiology
Total Session Time: 60 minutes
Pre-requisites
Students Learning Tasks
By the end of this session students are expected to be able to:
Resources Needed:
SESSION OVERVIEW
|Step |Time |Activity/ |Content |
| | |Method | |
|1 |5 minutes |Presentation |Introduction, Learning Tasks |
|2 | |Presentation |Terminologies used in |
| |10 minutes | |Pharmaceutical Microbiology |
|3 |35 minutes |Presentation |History and development of |
| | | |microbiology |
|4 |5 minutes |Presentation |Key Points |
|5 |5 minutes |Presentation |Evaluation |
SESSION CONTENTS
STEP 1: Presentation of Session Title and Learning Tasks (5 minutes)
READ or ASK students to read the learning tasks and clarify
ASK students if they have any questions before continuing
STEP 2: Common Terminologies Used in Pharmaceutical Microbiology (10
minutes)
o Microorganisms are organisms that are too small to be seen by naked
eyes
o Microorganisms include viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and algae.
with the aid of a microscope or electron microscope
o This deals with the study of microorganisms of pharmaceutical
importance
o Is the study of bacteria
o Is the study of fungi
o Is the study of protozoans
o Is the study of viruses
STEP 3: History and Development of Microbiology (35 minutes)
microscope and coined the term “cell”.
bacteria.
on bacteria shape. Cohn detailed and described the life cycle of
Bacillus.
Cohn’s Classification System:
o Sphaerobacteria are spherically shaped.
o Microbacteria are rod shaped
o Desmobacteria are filamentous
o Spirobacteria are spiral shaped
food by bacteria, develop vaccines and disproved the scientific dogma of
“Spontaneous Generation”. He defined “Germ Theory” and demonstrated
that germs were responsible for disease.
medium. Koch’s postulates was a systematic method to establish the
microbial cause of disease.
during medical procedures. The first to identify nosocomial infections.
and medicine.
diseases and discovers antibiotics to treat sleeping sickness and
syphilis.
the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV).
material of bacteriophages.
(DNA) or S35 (protein) they infected bacteria cells. They found the P32
inside the bacteria not S35.
STEP 4: Key Points (5 minutes)
by the naked eye.
pharmaceutical importance
STEP5: Evaluation (5 minutes)
References
Hugo and Russell (2011), Pharmaceutical Microbiology 8th Edition, Willey-
Blackwel publications
Karen C. Carroll et al (2013); Jawetz, Melnick and Adelberg’s Medical
Microbiology 26th Ed. McGraw Hill Co. Inc.
Greenwood et al (2012); Medical Microbiology, 18th edition Churchill
Livingstone
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