Well come to Microbiology Department

Dr. Mejbah Uddin Asst. Prof. of Microbiology

Microbiology: Is the study of microorganisms.

What is microbiology???

Microorganism or microbe: An organism that is microscopic in size, usually too small to be seen by the naked eye; includes bacteria, archaea, fungi, protozoa, blue-green algae, and viruses.

Introduction

Branches of Medical Microbiology:Bacteriology VirologyParasitologyMycology Immunology

History of Microbiology

384 -322 BC Aristotle and Others - believed that living

organisms could develop from non-living materials

1676Anton von Leeuwenhoek (1632 -1723)

invents microscope and observed microbes.

. He discoveredCulture techniqueDisease production by microbesAnthrax, RabiesLive attenuated vaccine, ARV

Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895) Founder of Modern Microbiology

1861

•Pure culture in solid

media•Koch’s pastulates•Isolated

•B. anthracis •M. tuberculosis•Cholera bacilli

1876 - 1892

Father of Medical MicrobiologyRobert Koch (1843 –1910)

Sir Alexander flemming(1881- 1955)

1929.

Sir Alexander flemming of Scotland discovered penicillin in 1929.

Discovered Small Pox vaccine in 1796 –1798.

Edward Jenner (1749 – 1823)

1796 –1798.

BooksBooks

Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Examination & Board Review - Lange.

Modern Medical Microbiology-M R

Chowdhury

Parasitology Protozoology and

Helminthology- K D Chatterjee

Medical Parasitology – Basic & Clinical

- Prof. Dr. Akram Hossain

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