Bacterial Physiology, Energy Metabolism, and Genetics — Medical Microbiology

Microbiology · Basic Sciences

How it begins

Trophic requirements, oxidative stress, respiration, fermentation, growth curve, mutations and horizontal gene transfer (transformation, transduction, conjugation). Bacterial growth curves, duplication kinetics, oxidative and fermentative metabolism, sugar catabolism, chromosomal genetics, plasmids, lysogenic phages, horizontal gene transfer (conjugation,…

What it covers

1. 1. Bacterial Nutrition and Metabolic Requirements
2. 2. Oxygen Requirements and Handling of Oxidative Stress
3. 3. Energy Metabolic Pathways: Cellular Respiration vs Fermentation
4. 4. Bacterial Growth Kinetics and Environmental Factors
5. 5. The Bacterial Genome and Mobile Genetic Elements
6. 6. Bacterial Mutations and Repair Mechanisms
7. 7. Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT): Transformation, Transduction and Conjugation
8. 8. Medical Relevance: Emergence of Resistance and Clonal Spread
9. 9. Bacterial Growth Kinetics and Physiology in Closed and Continuous Systems
10. 10. Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT): Conjugation, Transformation and Transduction
11. 11. Advanced Clinical Cases on Bacterial Genetics and Metabolism
12. 12. Gene Regulation: Operons, Attenuation and Quorum Sensing
13. 13. The Growth Curve and the Action of Antibiotics