microbes

If you are searching to get information about various features of microorganisms, you are now in the right place. This post will get relevant links about different Bacteria, Parasites, Fungi, and Viruses. I am covering the following characteristics of microorganisms.

  • Morphological characteristics
  • Cultural characteristics
  • Pathogenesis and virulence factors
  • Diseases
  • Laboratory diagnosis

Please refer to the given links to get more information about those organisms. If you are interested in the knowledge that has not been covered, you can email me at microbeonline@gmail.com. I will try to cover that topic(s) in the coming days.

A. Bacteriology

Gram-Positive Cocci

  1. Staphylococcus species
    1. Difference between Staphylococcus and Streptococcus
    2. Difference between Staphylococcus and Micrococcus
    3. Staphylococcus aureus:Disease, Properties, Pathogenesis, and Laboratory diagnosis
    4. Virulence Factors of Staphylococcus aureus and their roles
    5. MRSA: Emergence, Types, and Detection Methods
  2. Streptococcus species
    1. Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus): Disease, Properties, Pathogenesis and Laboratory diagnosis
    2. Virulence Factors of Streptococcus Pneumoniae
    3. Streptococcus Pyogenes (GAS): Characteristics; Virulence Factors, Diseases, and Key Tests
    4. Virulence factors of Streptococcus pyogenes and their roles

Gram-Positive Bacilli

  1. Clostridium difficile: Characteristics, Disease and Laboratory Diagnosis
  2. Clostridium perfringens: Properties, Diseases and Diagnosis 
  3. Clostridium tetani: Properties, Pathogenesis, and Laboratory Diagnosis
  4. Clostridium botulinum: Properties, Pathogenesis, and Laboratory Diagnosis
  5. Bacillus anthracis: Properties, Pathogenesis, and Laboratory Diagnosis
  6. Listeria monocytogenes: Properties, Pathogenesis and Laboratory Diagnosis

Gram-Negative Cocci & Coccobacilli

  1. Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonococci) and Neisseria meningitidis (meningococci)
  2. Brucellosis: etiology, pathogenesis, laboratory diagnosis, and prevention
  3. Acinetobacter: Disease, Properties, and Resistance 

Gram-Negative Rods

Enterobacteriaceae family

  1. Escherichia coli (E. coli) 
    1. Escherichia coli: Disease, Properties, Pathogenesis, and Laboratory diagnosis
    2. E. coli; Only Bacteria that win a record number of Nobel Prizes
    3. Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli
  2. Klebsiella pneumoniae: Properties, Diseases and Laboratory Diagnosis
  3. Proteus species: Properties, Diseases, and Identification
  4. Shigella: Disease, properties, pathogenesis and laboratory diagnosis
  5. Salmonella: Properties, Disease and Laboratory diagnosis
  6. Yersinia pestis: Properties, Disease and Laboratory Diagnosis

Other bacteria 

  1. Campylobacter jejuni: Disease, properties and Laboratory diagnosis
  2. Helicobacter pylori: Tests and Results
  3. Virulence factors of Helicobacter pylori and their role in pathogenesis
  4. Chlamydia Infections: causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
  5. Chlamydia trachomatis: properties, disease and laboratory diagnosis
  6. Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Infection, Mortality, Pathogenesis and diagnosis
  7. Q Fever: Etiology, general properties, pathogenesis and laboratory diagnosis
  8. Typhus Fever: Etiology, pathogenesis and laboratory diagnosis

Tuberculosis and Leprosy

  1. Leprosy: Etiology, Pathogenesis and Lab Diagnosis 
  2. Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM): Properties, Pathogenic genera and their diseases

Cell-wall less organisms

  1. Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Properties, Disease, Virulence and Diagnosis 

Mycology

Aspergillus fumigatus: Characteristics, Pathogenesis and Laboratory Diagnosis

Cryptococcus neoformans: Properties, pathogenesis, diseases and lab diagnosis

Candida albicans: pathogenesis, diseases and laboratory diagnosis

Histoplasma capsulatum: Properties, Diseases and Laboratory diagnosis

Sporotrichosis (Rose Gardener’s disease) and laboratory diagnosis

Parasitology

  1. Entamoeba histolytica: Life Cycle, Diseases and laboratory diagnosis
  2. Giardia lamblia: Life Cycle, Diseases and laboratory diagnosis

Virology

  1. Hepatitis A Virus: properties, pathogenesis and laboratory diagnosis
  2. Herpes Simplex Virus, Structure,Pathogenesis, Clinical Feature and Lab Diagnosis
  3. Influenza (flu) Virus: Introduction, Classification and Structure
  4. Japanese Encephalitis (JE) Virus: Structure, life cycle, pathogenesis and diagnosis
  5. Measles virus: structure, pathogenesis, clinical feature, complications and lab diagnosis
  6. Mumps Virus: Introduction, Pathogenesis, Clinical Findings and Lab Diagnosis
  7. Poliomyelitis: Pathogenesis, clinical features and Laboratory diagnosis
  8. Rabies Virus: Structure, Pathogenesis, and Clinical Findings
  9. Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV): Replication and Pathogenesis
  10. Zika virus: Transmission, Pathogenesis, symptoms and laboratory diagnosis