Topics: Medical Microbiology, microbial biology, infection, prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells, bacterial life cycle, bacterial growth, bacterial physiology, sterilization, disinfection, antimicrobial agents, antibacterial agents, antifungal agents, antiviral agents, Antiparasitic agents, antimicrobial sensitivity tests, bacterial genetics, mutation, gene transfer, plasmids, transposons, integrons, genomic islands, genetic mapping, antibiotic resistance, virus-cell interaction, abortive infections, latency, immunity, antigenic determinants, antigenic specificity, immunoglobulins, antigen recognition, innate immunity, acquired immunity, Lymphocyte trafficking, cellular activation, Humoral immunity, Cell-mediated immunity, immune responses, Immunodeficiency, Hypersensitivity, Autoimmunity, Immunopathology, vaccines, Parasitic infections, Pathogenesis, Pathogenic mechanisms, Immune defence mechanisms, host defenses, Bacterial pathogenicity, Staphylococcus, Skin infections, osteomyelitis, bloodstream infection; food poisoning, foreign body infections, Staphylococcus aureus, Coagulase-negative staphylococci, Streptococcus, enterococcus, Pharyngitis, scarlet fever, skin infections, soft tissue infections, streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, pneumonia, meningitis, urinary tract infections, rheumatic fever, post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis, Coryneform bacteria, listeria, erysipelothrix, Diphtheria, listeriosis, erysipeloid, mycobacterium, tuberculosis, leprosy, Environmental mycobacteria, Opportunist disease, Actinomyces, nocardia, tropheryma, Actinomycosis, nocardiasis, Whipple’s disease, Bacillus, Anthrax, food poisoning, Neisseria, moraxella, Meningitis, septicemia, gonorrhoea, respiratory infections, salmonella, Shigella, Bacillary dysentery, Escherichia, Urinary tract infection, travellers’ diarrhoea, haemorrhagic colitis, haemolytic uraemic syndrome, Klebsiella, enterobacter, proteus, enterobacteria, Pneumonia, urinary tract infection, opportunist infection, Pseudomonads, Vibrio, mobiluncus, gardnerella, spirillum, Cholera, vaginosis, rat bite fever, Haemophilus, Respiratory infections, chancroid, Bordetella, Whooping cough, Legionella, Legionnaires’ disease, Pontiac fever, Brucella, bartonella, streptobacillus: Brucellosis, Oroya fever, trench fever, cat scratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, Yersinia, pasteurella, francisella, Plague, pseudotuberculosis, mesenteric adenitis, pasteurellosis, tularaemia, Non-sporing anaerobes, Wound infection, periodontal disease, normal flora, Treponema, borrelia, Syphilis, yaws, relapsing fever, Lyme disease, Chlamydia, Genital infections, ocular infections, infertility, atypical pneumonia, Rickettsia, orientia, ehrlichia, anaplasma, coxiella, Typhus, spotted fevers, scrub typhus; ehrlichioses, Q fever, Mycoplasmas, Respiratory tract infections, genital tract infections, Adenoviruses, Respiratory disease, conjunctivitis, gut infections, Poxviruses, immunization