MBIO 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, Edward Jenner, Smallpox Vaccine

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Microbiology
• Course: MBIO 1220
• Professor: Silvia Cardona

Document Summary

This unit will discuss basic concepts, including important terminology that will be used in other units. This module will begin to provide the background knowledge required to master the medical microbiology topics covered later. How to proceed: ensure that you have all the required materials, skim the course manual and textbook to achieve an overview of the course, review the requirements for the midterm tests and the final examination. Unit activities: read the following sections in chapter 1 of your textbook. The summaries and/or guidelines provided with the reading list will direct you to the examinable parts of each textbook section: section 1. 1: the dispute over spontaneous generation. In this section you will learn about important milestones in microbiology. As you can see from figure 1. 3, there were numerous discoveries that had a major impact on the advancement of microbiology.