MLT 105 - Medical Microbiology

• Specimen processing, culturing, and identification techniques including microscopy.
• Medically important parasites
• Medically important fungi
• Virology
• Medically important Mycoplamsa, Chlamydia and Ricketssia
• Medically important Mycobacterium and Nocardia asteroides
• Medically important anaerobic bacteria
• Antimicrobial susceptibility

• In order to participate in lab, students must be wearing floor-length pants, closed-toe, closed heel shoes. Pants may not have rips, tears, etc. Students must also wear a liquid impervious lab coat, gloves and a face shield (available in SCC bookstore) whenever handling clinical specimens.

A = 90 - 100
B = 80 - 89
C = 70 - 79
D = 60 - 69
F =   0 - 59

1. Demonstrate the processes and procedures used in the processing, culturing, and identifying of medically important organisms.
2. Analyze morphology and biochemical tests for identification of the following:
   • Yeasts
   • Thermally dimorphic fungi
   • Dermatophytes
   • Mycobacteria and Nocardia asteroides
   • Anaerobes
3. Differentiate dermatophytes from the common laboratory fungal contaminants.
4. Compare safety procedures and appropriate specimen processing of the medically important Mycoplasma, Chlamydia, Rickettsia, and Viruses.
5. Explain and demonstrate the processes and procedures used in antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
6. Explain the basic processes, procedures and uses for molecular testing and mass spectroscopy in the clinical microbilogy laboratory. 
7. Correlate laboratory findings with diseases and treatments.

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