Contents: Historical introduction -- Morphology and physiology of bacteria -- Sterilisation and disinfection -- Culture media-- Culture methods -- Identification of bacteria -- Bacterial taxonomy -- Bacterial genetics -- Infection -- Immunity -- Antigens -- Antibodies-immunoglobulins -- Antigen-antigen reactions -- The complement system -- Immune response -- Immunodeficiency diseases -- Hypersensitivity -- Autoimmunity -- Immunology of transplantation and malignancy -- Imnohematology -- Staphylococcus aureus -- Streptococcus -- Pneumococcus -- Neisseria -- Corynebacterium -- Bacillus --Clostridium -- Nosporing anearobes -- Enterbacteriaceae-Coloforms/proteus -- Enterbacteriaceae-Shegilla -- Enterbacteriaceae-Samonella -- Vibro -- Pseudomonas -- Yersinia, pasteurella, Francisella -- Haemophilus -- Bordetella -- Brusella -- Mycrobacterium-tuberculosis -- Mycrobacterium-non tuberculosis -- Mycrobacterium-M leprae - Spirochetes -- Mycoplasma --Actinomycets -- Miscellaneous bacteria --Rickettsiaceae -- Chlamydiae -- Genral properties of viruses -- Virus host interactions:viral infections -- Bacteriophages -- Poxviruses -- Adenoviruses -- Picornaviruses -- Orthomyxovirus -- Paramyxoviruses -- Arbo viruses -- Rhabdoviruses -- Hepatitis viruses -- Miscellaneous viruses -- Oncogenic viruses -- Human Immunodeficiency virus: AIDS -- Normal microbial flora of the human body -- Bacteriology of water, milk ad air -- Medical Mycology -- Laboratory control of antimicrobial therapy -- Immunoprophylaxis -- Hospital infection -- Properties of mecrovial flora -- Sources and transmission of infection -- Collection and transport of specimens for microbiological examination -- Diagnostic methods in clinical microbiology -- Nosocomial infections -- Recent advances in diagnostice techniques in clinical microbiology -- Emerging infectious diseases