General Medical Microbiology
General Medical Microbiology
General Medical Microbiology
• The biology comes from bios referring to living organisms and logy
means the study of, thus biology is the study of living organisms.
• The others are non pathogenic (97%), the beneficial microbes are 87%
• Microbes live on and in our bodies e.g. skin, in the mouth and
intestine are known as indigenous microflora (or indigenous
microbiota). Some of them cause disease accidentally and known as
opportunistic pathogens (10%)
2. Classification of microorganisms.
3. Disease of plants.