Listed Tuesdays from 8am - 12:20pm
8/25, 9/8, 9/22, 10/6, 10/20, 11/3, 11/17 and 12/1
With Follow up labs on Thursdays from 9 am - noon for Labs 2 - 6
This course is an in-depth presentation of clinical bacteriology. Topics to be covered include specimen collection and transport, normal human flora and the sites associated with it, media used for culturing and identification of bacteria from human sources, pathogen susceptibility testing, and pathology and treatment of human bacterial infections. Also included is a study of human pathological mycology, the epidemiology and pathology of fungal infection, the culturing and identification of pathogenic and normal flora fungi and the treatment of fungal diseases. In addition, human parasitology including the epidemiology, pathology, identification from human sources, and treatment of parasitic infestations will be covered. The student performs laboratory exercises that simulate hospital procedures in clinical bacteriology, mycology, and parasitology.
Admission to the Medical Laboratory Technology program and BIOL 2714; or consent of instructor
General Education Outcomes are the knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, and behaviors that students are expected to develop as a result of their overall experiences with any aspect of the college, including courses, programs, and student services, both inside and outside of the classroom. The General Education Outcomes specifically learned in this course are:
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Responsibility
Faculty Contact Information
Tuesday 12:20 - 1pm (After lab in person)
Wednesday 11am - 2pm (in person)
Thursday 1pm - 4pm (virtual)
or by appointment as needed
Lamanda Baade
Google phone: 815-314-0816
Course Information
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Perform with accuracy the analytical tests required in the course, using quality control procedures and safety techniques.
- Differentiate normal flora from pathogens based on the body source.
- Relate, correlate information about, and identify various bacterial pathogens.
- Relate, correlate information about, and identify various fungus, virus, mycobacteria, and parasitic pathogens.
- Research information on topics of clinical microbiology from other known reputable sources and interpret the information correctly.
- General Issues in Clinical Microbiology
- Scientific and Laboratory Basis for Clinical Microbiology
- Microscopy, Cultivation, and Antimicrobial agents
- Gram positive cocci & bacilli
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Non-fermenting bacilli
- Other Gram negative bacilli
- Gram negative cocci
- Mycobacteria
- Spirochetes
- Anaerobes
- Diagnosis by Organ Systems
- Parasitology (protozoa & helminths)
- Mycology Fundamentals
- Superficial, Subcutaneous, Systemic Mycoses
- Virology (overview of medically important viruses)
Textbooks:
- Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology, 7th Edition, Mahon
- Medical Parasitiology, 7th Edition, Leventhal
- needed by Week 10
Supplies:
- Pen and/ or Pencil
- Black Sharpie marker for lab
- 3-ring binder for lab
- Lab coat, pants, and closed toe shoes
Weighted Grades
| Examinations | 65% |
| Final Exam | 10% |
| Laboratory procedures/Questions | 15% |
| Homework Assignments/Discussions | 10% |
| TOTAL | 100% |
Grading Scale
93-100 A
84-92 B
75-83 C
NOTE: A MINIMUM OF 75% MUST BE MAINTAINED TO RETAIN ELIGIBILITY FOR THE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM
Health Careers
Dean, Brad Wood; 815-802-8815; M107; bwood@kcc.edu; Division Office – W102; 815-802-8800
Student Responsibility:
- Check the course online content modules for specific due dates. Completed assignments are due on the required due date. They can be attached electronically in the Canvas course (the preferred method), or uploaded via the Canvas app. If an assignment cannot be completed, arrangements can be made at the discretion of the faculty. It will be the student’s responsibility to bring to the instructor’s attention the fact they have a test, a laboratory exercise, or quiz to make-up.
- All online quizzes and tests may be made-up at the discretion of the faculty. 10% reduction in exam score will be applied if more than one exam has been made up.
- Students are to keep in contact with the online course. The Faculty has the option to:
- Alter the required due date or time of the assignment.
- Maintain the required due date or time of the assignment.
- Lower the grade of late assignments by five percentage points for each day it is overdue, up to 1 week late when the grade will given a zero.
- Alter the assignment.
- Students are required to log on and view the units of instruction assigned each week. This is an individual responsibility of all students and should be taken into consideration in establishing priorities of time. To be successful in this program, students are expected to spend a minimum of 8 hours per course viewing, reading, and completing assignments.
- Student Laboratory Sessions – Students are required to attend 4.5 hours biweekly lab sessions. Due to the nature of the lab exercises lab make-ups (dates and time determined by the instructor) will only be allowed ONE makeup lab during the semester. Any other missed labs would result in a zero given for the second missed lab. 6.Students should plan to direct questions to the instructor about course policies or topics to be covered on tests in a timely fashion.
Instructor Responsibility:
- The instructor will return any emails and other communications Monday through Friday within 24 hours. Saturday and Sunday emails will be answered on Monday at the latest. If an email is unable to resolve a student issue/concern, Professor Baade will schedule to meet with a student virtually (Canvas BigBlueButton, or Zoom) or in person
- The instructor may be unable to respond to questions posted the night before or day that a course requirement is due.
- The instructor, as well as the department staff, are not available to answer questions over holidays and days that the school and the school’s health science office is closed.
- The instructor will grade all assignments within 1 week (7 days).
Laboratory Safety:
- No food or drink allowed in the classroom or lab.
- Clean countertops before and after class as necessary.
- All students must wear a lab coat and gloves during labs that require the use of biological specimens or performing methods of collection of biological specimens.
- Any accident must be reported to the instructor immediately.
- Follow instructions for needle, sharps, and biohazardous material disposal. Any breach in procedure can put you or the entire classroom at risk and will therefore not be treated lightly. Universal precautions must be followed at all times. Universal Precautions: Any and all blood or body fluids should be considered as potentially infectious
Use of Artificial Intelligence:
AI Usage Statement AI tools can be valuable resources for learning, exploration, and developing ideas. In this course, you may use AI for instructor-approved purposes, including brainstorming, feedback, and exploring different perspectives. When AI use is permitted, you are expected to critically evaluate and verify its output and to disclose how you used it.
AI should support—not replace—your own thinking, analysis, and learning. You remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of all work you submit. Specific assignments may include AI as part of the learning process, while others may require you to work without AI. Always follow the AI-use expectations provided for each assignment.
- Permitted uses: brainstorming, generating questions, receiving feedback, exploring alternative explanations, and other instructorapproved uses.
- Integrated AI activities: when assigned, students may use AI to generate or analyze material and then critique its accuracy, assumptions, biases, and limitations.
- Disclosure: students briefly identify which AI tool they used, what they used it for, and how they incorporated or modified its output.
- Human responsibility: students are responsible for the accuracy, originality, citations, and reasoning in their submitted work—even when AI was involved.
- Verification: students should independently verify factual claims, citations, calculations, quotations, and other AI-generated information.
- Privacy: students should not enter confidential, personally identifiable, or sensitive information into AI systems.
- Boundaries: AI should not substitute for the student's own analysis or be used on assignments where the instructor explicitly requires unaided work.
Cell phones: using and sending/receiving text messages will be perceived as a classroom interruption and will be counted as an absent and loss of in class points, if any, for the day. The student will not be notified of the loss of the day or in class points.
Timeliness: Students are expected to come to class on time, when the class is scheduled to start. Students coming to class ten (10) or more minutes past the class start time are considered late. Late attendance will have a 5 point deduction of the lab grade.
Absences: Students will be counted absent from class and/or lab beginning the first day of class. The instructor keeps daily attendance. More than two (2) absences over the semester will result in a 10% deduction of total overall points. Absences will be considered as unexcused regardless of the reason for the absence.
Exams: All exams will be taken online using LockDown Browser and Respondus monitor. These software require the use of video from a built in camera or webcam during exams. This software is available for Windows, Mac, and IPads but is not available on Mobile device. All exams must be taken by the scheduled due date except in the case of a catastrophic event. All exams must be taken before the next class meeting. Arrangements must be made with the instructor as soon as possible in order to complete the paper work needed to take a missed exam. A 10% reduction in the exam grade is given for each day the exam is not taken past the deadline.
Labs:
- Missed lab time or lab exercises, Only one (1) excusable absence is allowed per semester. Excusable absences constitute the following: sickness documented by a physician, a death in the family, or workshops/field trips and seminars.
- Preparation for labs is required. Assessment of this will be done either using a quiz or random drawing of students’ names and asking questions. A compilation of points will be made throughout the semester and totaled for a “lab preparation” score.
School Closing: In the event of an emergency college closing when a lab is scheduled, the lab session will need to be made up within a week when the classroom is available and at the discretion of the instructor. The instructor will be available via email and google phone number in the event of a Canvas outage.
Cheating: Students caught using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids during any academic exercise or examination, an F will automatically be given for the course.
| Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology, 7th ed. | Labs | Exams |
| Week 1 – Review General Microbiology | ||
Chapter 1. Bacterial Cell structure, Physiology, Metabolism and genetics Chapter 2. Host-Parasite interactions Chapter 3. The laboratory role in infection control Chapter 4. Control of Microorganisms: disinfection, sterilization, and microbiology safety | ||
| Week 2 – Review General Microbiology | ||
Chapter 5. Performance Improvement in the Microbiology laboratory Chapter 6. Specimen collection and processing Chapter 7. Microscopic Examination of materials from infected sites Chapter 8. Use of colony morphology for the presumptive identification of microorganisms | Lab 1: stains, setup, morphology, KB, Microscan |
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| Week 3 – Antibacterial Susceptibility | ||
Chapter 12. Antibacterial Mechanisms of Action and Bacterial Resistance Mechanisms Chapter 13. Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing | Exam 1 (Weeks 1 – 2) | |
| Week 4 – Staph and Strep (GPC) | ||
Chapter 14. Staphylococci Chapter 15. Streptococcus, Enterococcus and other catalase-negative, Gram-Positive Cocci. Chapter 32. Upper and Lower Respiratory Tract Infections (only Staph and Strep infections) Chapter 33. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (only Staph and Strep infections) Chapter 10. Immunodiagnosis of Infectious diseases (only testing for gram positive organisms) | Lab 2: Intro Gram stain reading of body sites, Staph vs. Strep | Exam 2 (Week 3) |
| Week 5 – Enterobacteriacea Family (GNB) | ||
Chapter 6: Only Stool culture Specimen collection, processing, and culture media selection Chapter 9. Biochemical Identification of Gram-Negative bacteria Chapter 19. Enterobacteriaceae Chapter 34. Gastrointestinal Infections and food poisoning | Exam 3 (Week 4) | |
| Week 6 – Miscellaneous Bacteria | ||
Chapter 20. Vibrio, Aeromonas and Campylobacter species Chapter 36. Bacteremia and Sepsis Chapter 37. Urinary Tract Infections | Lab 3: Pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae, ESBL and other antibiotic resistant orgs, gram stain reading body sites | |
| Week 7 – Neisseria, Moraxella, and Hemophilus | ||
Chapter 17. Neisseria species and Moraxella catarrhalis Chapter 18. Haemophilus species Only (pgs 384-392) Chapter 35. Infections of the Central Nervous System Chapter 38. Genital Infections and Sexually Transmitted Infections | Exam 4 (Week 5 & 6) | |
| Week 8 – Gram Positive Bacilli (GPB) | ||
Chapter 16. Aerobic Gram-positive bacilli Chapter 40. Zoonotic Disease Chapter 30. Agents of Bioterror and Forensic Microbiology (only B. anthracis and Y. pestis) | Lab 4: Unknown cultures of GPC and GNR and Neisseria & Hemophilus, Gram stain reading body sites | Exam 5 (Week 7) |
| Week 9 – HACEK and other Fastidious GNB | ||
Chapter 18. Only HACEK, Legionella, and other fastidious gram-negative bacilli (pgs 392-410) Chapter 21. Nonfermenting and Miscellaneous Gram-negative Bacilli Chapter 40. Zoonotic Disease Chapter 30. Agents of Bioterror and Forensic Microbiology (only Francisella tularensis and Burkholderia spp.) | ||
| Week 10 | ||
Chapter 23. The Spirochetes Chapter 24. Chlamydia, Rickettsia and similar organisms Chapter 33. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (pg 810-812) Dermatologic Manifestations of Systemic Bacterial Infections Chapter 38. Genital Infections and Sexually Transmitted Infections (Chlamydia and Syphilis) Chapter 40. Zoonotic Disease (pg 945 – 950) Leptospirosis, Borreliosis, Rickettsia, and Anaplasmataceae | Lab 5: NonFerm GNB and unknown body site cultures, Gram stain reading body sites | Exam 6 (Weeks 8 & 9) |
| Week 11 - Mycoplasma and Mycobacterium | ||
Chapter 25. Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma Chapter 26. Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Nontuberculosis Mycobacteria Chapter 32. Upper and Lower Respiratory Tract Infections Chapter 41. Ocular Infections | ||
| Week 12 - Anaerobes | ||
Chapter 22. Anaerobes of Clinical Importance Chapter 33. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (pgs 796 - 798, 803 - 804, 823 - 824) | Lab 6: Lab Practical – unknown body site cultures and reading gram stain body site | Exam 7 (wks 10 & 11) |
| Week 13 - Parasitology | ||
Leventhal & Cheadle. Medical Parasitology 7th ed. Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Nemotada Chapter 3. Cestoda Chapter 4: Digenea Chapter 10. Clinical Laboratory Procedures Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology, 7th ed. Chapter 28. Diagnostic Parasitology Chapter 35. Infections of the Central Nervous system (Parasites only) Chapter 34. Gastrointestinal Infections and food poisoning (Parasites only)
| Exam 8 (week 12) | |
| Week 14 - Parasitology | ||
Leventhal & Cheadle. Medical Parasitology 7th ed. Chapter 5. Protozoa: Amoebida Chapter 6: Protozoa: Intestinal Flagellates and Ciliates Chapter 7: Protozoa: The Hemoflagellates Trypanosoma spp. and Leishmania spp. Chapter 8: Protozoa: Sporozoa Chapter 11. Control and Treatment of Parasitic Disease Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology, 7th ed. Chapter 28. Diagnostic Parasitology Chapter 33. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (pgs 819 – 821) Chapter 35. Infections of the Central Nervous system
| Lab 7: Parasites and Anaerobes (Virtual Lab) | |
| Week 15 – Mycology | ||
Chapter 27. Medically significant fungi Chapter 33. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections | Exam 9 (Wks 13 & 14) | |
| Week 16 – Molecular Diagnostics | ||
Chapter 11. Application of Molecular Diagnostics Chapter 29. Clinical Virology Chapter 30. Agents of Bioterror and Forensic Microbiology | Lab 8: New Molecular Testing and Mycology slides | Exam 10 (Wks 15 & 16) |
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