The Staphylococci - Experiments(m140.12.1) - Handouts pgs. 155

Lecture Notes: The Staphylococci (m140.12.2) - Handouts pgs. 157

A Simulated Epidemic (m140.13.1) - Handouts pgs. 159
 

Sample Data from previous semesters (m140.13.3)

Enzyme Linked Immunosorbant Assay - ELISA (m140.13.2) - Handouts pgs. 166

Additional Readings:

TORTORA ET.AL.:

• Chapter 21, read about “Staphylococcal skin infections”, pg. 591-594;
• Chapter 25, read about “Staphylococcal food poisoning”, pg. 717-718;
• Chapter 14, read about “The etiology of infectious disease”, “Classifiying infectious diseases”, “Patterns of disease”, “The spread of infection”, Nosocomial infections”, “Emerging infectious diseases” and “Epidemiology” starting on pg. 406;
• Chapter 18, read about “Diagnostic immunology”, starting on pg. 511.

LEBOFFE and PIERCE:

Mannitol Salt Agar and PEA agars: pp. 14-15.

Coagulase test: pg. 65.

Novobiocin Resistance: pg. 85.

Precipitation Reactions: pp. 99.

Agglutination Reactions: pp. 101.

Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay: pp. 103-105.

Western Blot and Human Immunodeficiency Virus: pg. 106-108.

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