About the course
This course meets the need of professional capable of acting in specialties comprising microbiology in their different fields of work: food, environmental, industrial, and clinical analysis. USC offers a differentiated structure, with large laboratories and equipped with leading-edge technology, thus assuring great comfort on practical classes, and familiarizes the student with the labor market. Additionally, we have the best teachers and professionals in the area.
Subjects
- General considerations about Microbiology, eukaryotic vs. prokaryotic cell, Bacteriology, Mycology, and Virology
- Sterilization and Biosafety
- Microbial growth parameters / Food Safety Management Tools
- Food-borne infections and intoxications: pathogen control
- Methods for detecting and characterizing important microorganisms in food
- Water microbiological control
- Vegetable foods. Meat, poultry, and seafood
- Milk, Eggs. Confectionery Products. Nutrient enteral solutions
- Commercially sterile food
- Fungi and mycotoxins. Predictive modelling
- Microbial biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles
- Analytical contamination indicating processes; bioremediation and microorganism bioprospecting techniques
- Microbial biofilms and health, environment, and industry interface
- Biotechnological fermentation processes
- Sterilization and fermentation control
- Microbial origin therapeutic products: Antibiotics, Vaccines, and Hormones
- Microbial origin biotechnological products: Enzymes
- Microbial origin biotechnological products: Beverages and Biofuel
- Bacterial infections: main groups of pathogenic bacteria; detection and identification methods
- Viral infections: main viral infection agents; detection and identification methods
- Fungi infections: superficial, cutaneous, subcutaneous, systemic, and opportunist mycoses; detection and identification methods
- Antimicrobial drugs and resistance bases; main antimicrobial agents; main resistance mechanisms; phenotypical and genotypical methods for detecting resistance
- Upper and lower airway infections; Central nervous system infections; Skin and soft tissue infections
- Genitourinary tract infections; Gastrointestinal tract infections
- Sepsis; health care-related infections (IRAS) and CCIH importance
- Interdisciplinary topics in Microbiology