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Purposes of Microbiology. General bacteriology: morphology, structure, and function of bacterial cells. Notes on reproduction. Modes of transmission of infectious diseases. Mechanisms of pathogenic action of bacteria; conventional and opportunistic pathogens. Protein toxins and endotoxin. Antimicrobial agents: classification and mechanisms of action of the main antibacterials and main mechanisms of resistance (antibiogram). General virology: definition of viruses, composition, and architecture of the viral particle.

Elementi di Microbiologia e Microbiologia clinica Paola Cipriani e Giordano Dicuonzo McGrawHill Editore