Printing: The best way for students to print out the PowerPoint Show is to download the PDF version. Select Print, and, when the Print screen comes up, go to the Print Handling options. Under Page Scaling, select "Multiple pages per sheet". Under Pages Per Sheet, select "2". That uses up less paper, placing two slides on each page.
You have free access to a large collection of materials used in a college-level introductory microbiology course. The Virtual Microbiology Classroom provides a wide range of free educational resources including PowerPoint Lectures, Study Guides, Review Questions and Practice Test Questions.
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Introduction to Microbiology Lecture Materials
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are the Introduction to Microbiology Lecture materials of the Virtual Microbiology Classroom. The resources below are used in an actual, live college microbiology course.
Understand what you need to do every week in order to be prepared for and to participate in lab.
Understand where to access the resources associated with this class in the Virtual Microbiology Classroom and on Moodle.
What is normal flora? Is it ever harmful? If so, when?
What is the difference between normal flora, opportunistic pathogens and "full-time" pathogens?
What is a nosocomial infection?
Compare mutualism, commensalism & parasitism.
Know the microbes that we met in this lecture and their relevance to the topics discussed: Yersenia pestis and the Black Plague, Smallpox, Influenza.
What is influenza? What type of microbe is it caused by? What are the current recommendations for flu prevention and vaccination? Explore the information on the Flu.gov website to learn more about influenza.
What might happen if a deadly new infectious disease hit the scene?
The film "Contagion" provides an excellent opportunity to learn about infectious disease, how it spreads and which organizations would be involved in tracking and controlling a dangerous outbreak.
These multiple-choice / matching practice test questions and essay review questions are designed to help you better understand the material from this lecture.
Play Pandemic 2, a video game of strategy, where you try to become a successful pandemic microbe and infect the world. My teenage daughter and I recommend this one to you.
“Quarantine” a scary movie about a new infectious disease.
“Contagion” great dramatic movie that realistically depicts what could happen in outbreak of a novel, virulent infectious disease. (Click here for an assignment based on the movie.)
Be an epidemiologist. Save humanity. "Pandemic" board game by Z-Man Games is the bomb-diggity of strategy!
Normal Flora webpage, by Douglas F. Fix. Interactive page where you can select an area of the body and learn which normal flora typically colonize that location.
Bacterial Pathogen Pronunciation Station, a webpage with links to audio files of the pronunciation of bacterial scientific names, created by Neal R. Chamberlain, Ph.D.