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Basic microbiology

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Overview

Microbes are living organisms that can be beneficial, neutral or harmful to humans. A basic understanding of microbiology will allow you to recognize how your role as an Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) person can help break the cycle of transmission, prevent health care-associated infections (HAI) and reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

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Syllabus

Course information

This course is available in: македонски

Overview: In this course, you will learn about how disease-causing microbes, called pathogens, are classified, identified and transmitted. You will be introduced to basic microbiological principles, fundamental laboratory diagnostics and mechanisms by which microbes transmit and cause diseases.

Learning objectives: By the end of this session, you will be able to:

  • define microbes and other microbiology terms;
  • describe the chain of infection;
  • describe the main groups of microorganisms;
  • discuss common multidrug-resistant organisms; and
  • describe basic laboratory diagnostics.

Course duration: Approximately 1 hour.

Certificates: A Record of Achievement will be issued to participants who receive at least 70% on the post-test. You have an unlimited number of attempts to meet the threshold. Participants who receive a Record of Achievement can also download an Open Badge for this course. Click here to learn how.

Reviews

5.0 rating, based on 4 Class Central reviews

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  • Profile image for Kennedy Sever
    Kennedy Sever
    This course was extremely quick to complete especially if you already know much of the information beforehand, which I did, then it will only take around 20 minutes or so. Either way this course is a very good simple way to get a certificate of your knowledge which could be good on resumes. The course itself had no videos and only had small portions of reading, trust me it’s not a lot so don’t be intimidated, and after of which you take an 11 question multiple-choice test as proof.
  • Profile image for Saniya Abbas
    Saniya Abbas
    it is a very quick and easy course which is useful and very beneficial to us it gives information about various microbes and how do they infect us and how can we cure this kind of pathogenic diseases
  • Profile image for RAXIT KARIYA
    RAXIT KARIYA
    Basic Microbiology is an amazing course to get a brief overview of microbiology, it is easy to understand for beginners, this course take very less time to complete.
  • Anonymous
    It is a nice course for the basic knowledge that every one can understand and want this like more from WHO
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