Microbes - Major Microbial Groups - Gram Positive & Gram Negative Bacteria - Pathogenicity

In this lecture following topics are discussed:
1. What are Microbes?

2. Major microbial groups
3. Structure of bacteria
4. Normal Flora
5. Gram Stain
6. Difference between gram positive and gram negative bacteria
7. ZN staining
8. ZN staining for M. tuberculosis
9. Facultative, obligate aerobes, anaerobes
10. Microaerophillic
11. Pathogenicity of bacteria
12. Colonization.
13. Inflammation and immune mediated damage.
14. Physical Damage.
15. Toxins - Endotoxins and Exotoxins.
16. Classification of exotoxins

This lecture was delivered by Dr. Tayyab Saeed Akhtar at Foreign Students Academy.