General Microbiology

Code:

MT127

Acronym:

M_GERA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2006/2007 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Molecular Biology
Course/CS Responsible:	Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MED	195	Plano oficial a partir de 2003	1	3		-

Main Bibliography

Microbiology (Prescott, Harley & Klein), McGraw Hill.
Brock's Biology of Microorganisms, Prentice Hall.
Microbiologia (WFC Ferreira & JC Sousa), Lidel.
Medical Virology (White & Fenner), Academic Press.

Complementary Bibliography

Whitman et al 1998 "Procariotes: the unseen majority" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, vol. 95, pp 6578-6583.
Morell V, 1997 "Microbiology's Scarred Revolutionary" (sobre Carl Woese), Science, vol. 276, pp 699-702.
Vreeland et al, 2000 "Isolation of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal" Nature, vol. 407, pp. 897-900. Comentário no mesmo número da revista, pp. 844-845.
deRosier D 1998 "The turn of the screw: the bacterial flagellar motor" Cell, vol. 93, pp. 17-20.
Costerton et al 1999 "Bacterial biofilms: a common cause of persistent infections". Science, vol. 284, pp. 1318-1322.
Bijlsma JJE and Groisman EA 2003 "Making informed decisions: regulatory interactions between two-component systems" Trends in Microbiology, vol 11, pp.359-366.
Lorenz MC and Fink GR. 2001 "The glyoxylate cycle is required for fungal virulence."
Nature, vol. 412, pp. 83-86.
McKinney JD et al 2000 "Persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in macrophages and mice requires the glyoxylate shunt enzyme isocitrate lyase." Nature, Vol. 406, pp. 735-738.
Howard Ochman et al. 2000 "Lateral gene transfer and the nature of bacterial innovation", Nature vol. 405, pp. 299-304.
Walsh C 2000. "Molecular mechanisms that confer antibacterial drug resistance" Nature vol. 406, pp. 775-781
Walsh C 2003 "Where will new antibiotics come from?" Nature Reviews in Microbiology vol 1, pp. 65-70.
Lederberg, 2000, "Infectious History", Science, vol. 288, pp. 287-293.
Beutler B and Rietschel E, 2003 "Innate immune sensing and its roots: the story of endotoxin" Nature Reviews in Immunology, vol. 3, pp. 169-176.
Donnenberg MS 2000 "Pathogenic strategies of enteric bacteria" Nature, vol. 406, pp. 768-774.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam