BIO 5100 - Microbiology in Health and Disease

4 Credit(s) Hours: 6 hrs. each semester

For students preparing for Nursing, Physician’s Assistant and other allied health sciences only.
This course examines the role of microbes as infectious agents responsible for a wide variety of diseases and medical conditions. Disease transmission, treatment, and prevention are considered. The laboratory focuses on the basic methods to cultivate, identify and control microbial growth.
This course does not satisfy the Biology Major elective requirement.
Nursing students must take BIO 5100 before or with NUR 2100 . Nursing students who withdraw from BIO 5100 cannot continue in NUR 2100.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 1200
Department: Biological Sciences