Microbiology Internet Resources

Basic Immunology

http://www.ucg.ie/bac/basic%20immunology.htm

http://www.ueg.ie/bac/allergy.htm

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/ClonalSelection.html

Host Microbe Relationships and Disease Processes ***

http://www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/~sabedon/black14.htm

Bacteria

1. The Bad Bug Book on food borne diseases: http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html

2. Staphylococcus general information: http://www.cehs.siu.edu/fix/medmicro/staph.htm

http://www.okstate.edu/OSU_Ag/fapc/fsw/staph.htm

http://www.sci.wsu.edu/bio/micro310staph.html

3. Streptococcus general information:

http://www.cehs.siu.edu/fix/medmicro/strep.htm

http://www.rockefeller.edu/vaf/

4. Neisseria general information : Neisseria

5. Clostridium general information : Clostridium

6. Mycobacterium tuberculosis general information : Mycobacterium

7. Pseudomonas aeurginosa general information : Pseudomonas

8. Bordetella pertussis general information : Bordetella

9. Escherichia coli general information : Escherichia

10. Salmonella and Shigella general information : Salmonella, Shigella

11. Yersinia pestis general information : Yersinia

12. Vibrio cholerae general information : Vibrio

13. Corynebacterium diphtheriae general information: Corynecbacterium

14. Treponema pallidum general information: Treponema

Fungi

1. Good general information : The Kingdom Fungi

2. Fungal Diseases: Fungal Disease (NIAID)

3. Common Fungal Infection : Fungal infections of the hair, nail and skin

Parasites

1. Worm eggs and ova images:http://www.life.sci.qut.edu.au/LIFESCI/darben/paramast.htm

2. Another site: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/home.html

Tools of the Microbiologist

1. Simulation of how to visualize a specimen with an electron microscope:(use the student site the first time through): http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/~kunkel/java-sem/

2. History of the light microscope : http://www.az-microscope.on.ca/history/history.html

Biodefense : Project Bioshield http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/Biodefense/Public/projectbioshield.htm