African Health OER Network: Laboratory Methods for Clinical Microbiology

Logo of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Term:
2009
Published:
November 3, 2010
Revised:
June 9, 2015

This comprehensive module explores common laboratory experiments for microbiology, including microbiological stains (e.g. Gram stains), assessing the accuracy of diagnostic tests, measuring antibody response to infection, and Detection of microbial antigens, and nucleic acid amplification (e.g. Polymerase Chain Reaction).

Authors:  Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Cary Engleberg, Charles Agyei Osei

Institutions: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, University of Michigan

Also available on: iTunes U

Logo of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Term:
2009
Published:
November 3, 2010
Revised:
June 9, 2015

Demos

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Animation: Agglutination assay to detect antigens (2:44) - Multilingual captions

Cary Engleberg

Animation: Enzyme immunoassay (EIA) to detect antigens (2:06) - Multilingual captions

Cary Engleberg

Animation: Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) (1:50) - Multilingual captions

Cary Engleberg

Animation: Intro to Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) (6:56) - Multilingual captions

Cary Engleberg
Yaw Adu-Sarkodie

Animation: Measuring Serum Antibody with an Agglutination Assay (4:08) - Multilingual captions

Cary Engleberg

Animation: Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) (6:45) - Multilingual captions

Cary Engleberg
Yaw Adu-Sarkodie

Animation: Staining of a Gram-Negative Bacterium (1:44) - Multilingual captions

Cary Engleberg

Animation: Staining of a Gram-Positive Bacterium (1:48) - Multilingual captions

Cary Engleberg

Laboratory Methods for Clinical Microbiology - Playlist with all 12 video demos - Multilingual captions

Yaw Adu-Sarkodie
Cary Engleberg
Charles Agyei Osei

Video: Fecal Parasite Examination - The Formol-Ether Concentration (5:44) - Multilingual captions

Cary Engleberg
Charles Agyei Osei

Video: How to Prepare a Gram Stain (4:23) - Multilingual captions

Cary Engleberg
Charles Agyei Osei

Video: Microscopic Staining for Blood Parasites (6:00) - Multilingual captions

Cary Engleberg
Charles Agyei Osei

Video: Preparing an Acid-Fast Stain using the Ziehl-Nielsen Method (4:36) - Multilingual captions

Cary Engleberg
Charles Agyei Osei

Miscellaneous

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Complete Module: Laboratory Methods for Clinical Microbiology

Cary Engleberg
Charles Agyei Osei
Yaw Adu-Sarkodie

Laboratory Methods for Clinical Microbiology - Link to OER Africa version

Cary Engleberg
Yaw Adu-Sarkodie