Syllabus For The Subject MICROBIOLOGY & PATHOLOGY

UNIT - 01

MICROBIOLOGY AND PARASITOLOGY - INTRODUCTION - DEFINITION - CLASSIFICATION -

CLINICAL IMPORTANCE - OCULAR MICROBIOLOGY - NORMAL OCULAR FLORA -

DEFINITION - CLINICAL IMPORTANCE - BASIC LABORATORY TECHNIQUES - COLLECTION

OF SPECIMENS - CONJUNCTIVAL SWAB - LACRIMAL SAC - SCRAPINGS FROM CORNEAL

ULCER - AC, VITREOUS TAPPINGS - ANALYSIS

UNIT - 02

FIXING OF SLIDES - MICROSCOPY - STAINING - POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE MOUNT -

GRAM`S STAINING - GIEMSA STAINING - CULTURE

UNIT - 03

BACTERIOLOGY - DEFINITION - CLASSIFICATION - GRAM POSITIVE COCCI - COMMON

ORGANISMS - STAPHYLCOCCI - STREPTOCOCCI - PNEUMOCCCCI - CLINICAL

IMPORTANCE - DIAGNOSIS - GRAM POSITIVE BACILLI - COMMON ORGANISMS -

CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE - C.XEROSIS.

UNIT - 04

CLINICAL - IMPORTANCE - DIAGNOSIS - GRAM NEGATIVE COCCI - COMMON ORGANISMS

- GONOCOCCI - MENINGOCOCCI - CLINICAL IMPORTANCE - DIAGNOSIS - GRAM

NEGATIVE BACILLI - COMMON ORGANISMS - ENTEROBACTERIA, PSEUDOMONAS -

MORAXELLA, HAEMOPHILUS - CLINICAL IMPORTANCE - DIAGNOSIS - MYCOBACTERIA -

COMMON ORGANISMS -M.TUBERCULOSIS, M.LEPRAE.

UNIT - 05

CLINICAL IMPORTANCE - DIAGNOSIS - SPIROCHETES - COMMON ORGANISMS -

TREPONEMA PALLIDUM -

LEPTOSPIRA - CLINICAL IMPORTANCE - DIAGNOSIS - CHLAMYDIAE - COMMON

ORGANISMS - TRIC, LGV.

UNIT - 06

CLINICAL IMPORTANCE - DIAGNOSIS - OCULAR VIROLOGY - DEFINITION -

CLASSIFICATION - COMMON VIRUSES - POX - HERPES - ADENO - PICORNA - RUBELLA -

RETROVIRUSES.

UNIT - 07

CLINICAL IMPORTANCE - DIAGNOSIS - OCULAR PARASITOLOGY - DEFINITION -

CLASSIFICATION - ACANTHAMEOBA - TOXOPLASMA - TOXOCARA - FILARIA -

CYSTICERCUS - ECHINOCOCCUS - PHTHIRUS - COMMON PARASITES

UNIT - 08

CLINICAL IMPORTANCE - DIAGNOSIS - OCULAR MYCOLOGY - DEFINITION -

CLASSIFICATION - COMMON FUNGI - FUSARIUM, ASPERGILLUS, MUCOR, CANDIDA, -

RHINOSPORIDIUM, HISTOPLASMA.

Vinayaka Missions University,Directorate of Distance Education

Salem India

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY

1 Yr.

MICROBIOLOGY & PATHOLOGY[BOPT-(L)](1031004)

UNIT - 09

CLINICAL IMPORTANCE - DIAGNOSIS - OCULAR IMMUNOLOGY - DEFINITION - CLINICAL

IMPORTANCE - TYPE 1, TYPE 2, TYPE 3, TYPE 4 REACTION - STERILIZATION AND

DISINFECTION - STERILIZATION - DEFINITION - METHODS - HEAT (DRY, MOIST HEAT),

IONISING RADIATION - FILTRATION - STERILANT GASES - STERILANT LIQUIDS -

DISINFECTION - DEFINITION - METHODS - HEAT - UV RADIATION - CHEMICAL AGENTS -

FILTRATION - GASES - CHOICES OF METHODS.

UNIT - 10

GENERAL PATHOLOGY - NORMAL CELL - INJURY - INFLAMMATION - VASCULAR

COMPONENT - CELLULAR COMPONENT - HEALING AND REPAIR - VASCULAR

COMPONENT - CELLULAR COMPONENT - HYPER SENSITIVITY REACTIONS - TUMOURS.

UNIT - 11

OCULAR PATHOLOGY - EYE LIDS - CHALAZION - HORDEOLUM INTERNUM - HORDEOLUM

- EXTERNUM - CONJUNCTIVA - CONJUNCTIVITIS - CORNEA.

UNIT - 12

ULCERS - KERATOCONNUS - LENS - PATHOLOGY OF CATARACT - LENS INDUCED

GLAUCOMA & UVEITIS - TUMOURS - RETINOBLASTOMA - MALIGNANT MELANOMA

TUMOURS - ORBITAL TUMOURS & PSEUDO TUMOURS- SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA -

LACRIMAL GLAND.