Medical Mycology-Mbio 470

The course aims to provide, theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to work with and identify the fungi and some filamentous actinomycetes that most commonly cause disease in humans and animals.
* The course will impart basic scientific understanding of the role of fungi in causing different types of mycoses, their habitat, pathogenesis, mode of infection, transmission, protection and the emerging pathogens in patients with weak immunity.
* Further this course will enable students to master the practical skills of diagnosis and identification of medically important fungi, some of the research and more advanced techniques being developed in this area.