September 2022 - Medical Microbiology & RDT Labs

Rabies (Hydrophobia)

Rabies is a vaccine-preventable, zoonotic, viral disease. Once clinical symptoms of hydrophobia appear, rabies is 100 % fatal. Rabies is

Adenoviruses are a group of medium sized virus those are non enveloped, double stranded DNA viruses. They infect human, animals

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. They are commonly called as ‘phages’. Phages occur widely in nature in close association

As known viruses do not fall strictly into the category of unicellular microorganisms because they do not have a cellular

Actinomycetes are traditionally considered to be transitional forms between bacteria and fungi. Because, like fungi they form a mycelial network

Mycoplasmas are group of bacteria those do not have cell wall and are highly pleomorphic, with no fixed shape or size.

Mycobacteria are slender rods that sometimes show branching filamentous from resembling fungal mycelium. In liquid cultures they form a mold-like

Covid 19 is used in short form for the disease caused by coronavirus. It is an infectious disease caused by

The genus Brucella consist of very small, nonmotile, aerobic, Gram negative coccobacilli those grow poorly on ordinary media and have little or

The plague bacillus and many other Gram negative, short bacilli that are primary pathogens of rodents were grouped together in