Pharmaceutical Microbiology

In Pharmaceutical Microbiology the relationship between micro-organisms, their human hosts and pharmaceutical products, cosmetics and medical devices will be explored. Through lectures and hands-on laboratory work students further develop their microbiological techniques to determine microbial populations and isolate specific spoilage micro-organisms and pathogens using accredited laboratory methods such as the most current USP methodology. Chemotherapeutic agents, their mode of action, susceptibility, and their resistance to antimicrobial controls are studied. Emerging antibiotic resistant pathogens and their impact are studied. Students will examine the methods of detecting antibiotic sensitivity and potency. The production of pharmaceuticals by microbes, as well as the monitoring and control of microbial contamination will be studied.