LECTURE NOTES
Degree and Diploma Programs
For Environmental Health Students
Medical Bacteriology
Abilo Tadesse, Meseret Alem
University of Gondar
In collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center,
the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education
September 2006
, Funded under USAID Cooperative Agreement No. 663-A-00-00-0358-00.
Produced in collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter
Center, the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education.
Important Guidelines for Printing and Photocopying
Limited permission is granted free of charge to print or photocopy all pages of this
publication for educational, not-for-profit use by health care workers, students or
faculty. All copies must retain all author credits and copyright notices included in the
original document. Under no circumstances is it permissible to sell or distribute on a
commercial basis, or to claim authorship of, copies of material reproduced from this
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©2006 by Abilo Tadesse, Meseret Alem
All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided above, no part of this publication may
be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,
without written permission of the author or authors.
This material is intended for educational use only by practicing health care workers or
students and faculty in a health care field.
, PREFACE
Text book on Medical Bacteriology for Medical Laboratory
Technology students are not available as need, so this lecture note
will alleviate the acute shortage of text books and reference
materials on medical bacteriology.
Since it comprises most of the contents of course outline on medical
bacteriology to nursing, pharmacy and environmental science
students, it can be used as a main learning material to these
category of students.
This lecture note gives emphasis on the knowledge and procedures
of medical bacteriology to common pathogens in our country.
At last but not least, the quality of this lecture note is kept updated
by continous comments made by users of this lecture note.
Abilo Tadesse
Meseret Alem
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, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to acknowledge the Carter Center, USA, for financial
support for the preparation of this lecture note.
Our deepest gratitude goes to Prof. Dennis Carlson for his
invaluable technical and moral support for the completion of this
work.
We also extend our appreciation to those individuals who reviewed
this lecture note in different teaching institutions for the
materialization of this lecture note.
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Degree and Diploma Programs
For Environmental Health Students
Medical Bacteriology
Abilo Tadesse, Meseret Alem
University of Gondar
In collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center,
the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education
September 2006
, Funded under USAID Cooperative Agreement No. 663-A-00-00-0358-00.
Produced in collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter
Center, the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education.
Important Guidelines for Printing and Photocopying
Limited permission is granted free of charge to print or photocopy all pages of this
publication for educational, not-for-profit use by health care workers, students or
faculty. All copies must retain all author credits and copyright notices included in the
original document. Under no circumstances is it permissible to sell or distribute on a
commercial basis, or to claim authorship of, copies of material reproduced from this
publication.
©2006 by Abilo Tadesse, Meseret Alem
All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided above, no part of this publication may
be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,
without written permission of the author or authors.
This material is intended for educational use only by practicing health care workers or
students and faculty in a health care field.
, PREFACE
Text book on Medical Bacteriology for Medical Laboratory
Technology students are not available as need, so this lecture note
will alleviate the acute shortage of text books and reference
materials on medical bacteriology.
Since it comprises most of the contents of course outline on medical
bacteriology to nursing, pharmacy and environmental science
students, it can be used as a main learning material to these
category of students.
This lecture note gives emphasis on the knowledge and procedures
of medical bacteriology to common pathogens in our country.
At last but not least, the quality of this lecture note is kept updated
by continous comments made by users of this lecture note.
Abilo Tadesse
Meseret Alem
i
, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to acknowledge the Carter Center, USA, for financial
support for the preparation of this lecture note.
Our deepest gratitude goes to Prof. Dennis Carlson for his
invaluable technical and moral support for the completion of this
work.
We also extend our appreciation to those individuals who reviewed
this lecture note in different teaching institutions for the
materialization of this lecture note.
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