About

History

Department was established in 1995 in old building in sir takhtsinhji hospital campus with annual intake capacity of 50 students. In March 2000 department was shifted to newly construct spacious college building near state transport depot. Department is located on fourth floor and has infrastructure adequate to cater the need of 150 admissions per year. In the academic year 2006-07 with permission of medical council of india intake capacity is raised to 100 students per year. Department also participate in teaching laboratory methods in Microbiology to students of medical laboratory technicians training course run by directorate of medical education and research, govt. of gujarat for inservice and outside candidates over and above undergraduate course leading to m.b.b.s. degree Department wishes to start postgraduate (m. d.) course in subject of Microbiology and expect inspection from medical council of india in october 2006 Govt. of gujarat has decided to apply to central government to raise undergraduate admission capacity to 150 from academic year 2007-08.

Head of the Department

Academic Year	Head of the Department
Sept 1996 - 30 Dec,96	DR. H.H Agrawat
24 Apr,1997 - 27 Aug,97	Mr. M.B Asnani
28 Aug,1997 - 25 Aug,98	DR.M.B Shah
26 May,1998 - 20 July,02	DR. S.B Saxena
21 July,02 - 17 Aug,08	DR. N. I. Shah
18 Aug,08 - 7 Dec,09	DR. P.K Shah
12 Feb,10 - Onwards	DR. T.B Javdekar

Infrastructure

The whole college was constructed with keeping in mind the idea of increasing undergraduate admission strength in future to 150. so as mentioned below department has enough space to accommodate 150 students.

• Department has dedicated broadband connection with membership to govt. of gujarat virtual library project through which hundreds of journals and books are accessible online
• Department has dedicated fulltime faculties (as private practice of any kind is not permissible as per recruitment rules of govt.of gujarat).department has adequate number of teaching faculties as per medical council of india guidelines to maintain teacher:student ratio to 1:10.
• Offices for teaching and paramedical staff
• Department has dedicated fulltime faculties
• Laboratory – As per NABL noms

1. Immunology
2. Bacteriology
3. Mycology
4. Parasitology
5. Virology
6. AFB Laboratory
7. Advance microbiology

Achievements

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College Achievements

Teaching Staff

Dr. Tanuja B Javdekar ( Professor & Head Of The Department )	more...
Qualification : M.D(Microbiology) Experience : 0 Years Date of Joining : 2010-02-16 Field of Research : microbiology
Dr. Kairavi J Desai ( Associate Professor )	more...
Qualification : M.D(Micro) Experience : 11 Years Date of Joining : 1999-01-22 Field of Research : Mycology & Bacteriology
Dr. Rasmika Dhavabhai Parmar ( Assistant Professor )	more...
Qualification : M.D(Micro) Experience : 4 Years Date of Joining : 2006-04-19 Field of Research : microbiology(serology)
Dr. Hiral Modbhai Gadhavi ( Assistant Professor )	more...
Qualification : M.D(Micro) Experience : 5 Years Date of Joining : 2005-07-11 Field of Research : microbiology
Dr. Rajesh Somabhai Katara ( Assistant Professor )	more...
Qualification : M.D(Micro) Experience : 1 Years Date of Joining : 2009-08-07 Field of Research : Microbiology (parasitology)
Dr. piyush Amrutlal panchal ( Tutor )	more...
Qualification : mbbs Experience : 1 Years Date of Joining : 2009-05-25 Field of Research : microbiology
Dr. Ravindra D Jadeja ( Tutor )	more...
Qualification : M.D(Micro) Experience : 9 Years Date of Joining : 2001-04-26 Field of Research : microbiology
Dr. Pooja J Dholakiya ( Tutor )	more...
Qualification : M.D(Micro) Experience : 1 Years Date of Joining : 2009-11-13 Field of Research : microbiology
Dr. saklainhaider s Malek ( Tutor )	more...
Qualification : MBBS Experience : 2 Years Date of Joining : 2008-05-06 Field of Research : Microbiology
Dr. Asha Dayabhai Halpati ( 1 Year Resident Doctor )	more...
Qualification : MBBS Experience : 2010 Years Date of Joining : 0000-00-00
Dr. Ila Kalubhai Italiya ( 1 Year Resident Doctor )	more...
Qualification : mbbs Experience : 1 Years Date of Joining : 2009-06-09 Field of Research : microbiology

Non Teaching Staff

Facility

Facility

For Teaching and Training

• Lecture hall - Capacity 133 seats, expandable up to 200.
• Demonstration/ Tutorial Rooms - Capacity 50 seats
• Clinical Microbiology laboratory - Capacity 48 seats
• Experimental Microbiology laboratory - Capacity 48 seats
• Research, Clinical Microbiology and Microbiology research laboratories
• Teaching aids- LCD projector, Overhead projectors, Automatic & manual slide projectors
• Soft wares for Computer Aided Learning, Simulation Experiments etc

Instruments available in the department

Total No of Instruments and Equipment are 156.

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Subject curriculum

Undergraduate Curriculum

1. GOAL:
The broad goal of the teaching of undergraduate students in microbiology is to provide and understanding of the natural history of infectious disease in order to deal with the etiology, pathogeneses, laboratory diagnosis , treatment and control of infections in the community and to prepare him to be a teacher of microbiology.
2. OBJECTIVE
A) KNOWLEDGE
At the end of the course, the student shall be able to:
1. State the infective micro- organisms of the human body and describe the host parasite relationship;
2. List pathogenic micro-organisms (bacteria, viruses,parasites fungi) and describe the pathogenesis of the diseases produce by them;
3. Indicate the modes of transmission of pathogenic and opportunistic organism and their sources, including insect vectors responsible for transmission of infection;
4. Describe the mechanisms of immunity to infections;
5. Acquire knowledge on suitable antimicrobial agents for treatment of infections and scope of immunotherapy and different vaccines available for prevention of communicable disease;
6. Apply methods of disinfection and sterilization to control and prevent hospital and community acquire infections;
7. Recommend laboratory investigations regarding bacteriological examination of food water milk and air.
B) SKILLS
 At the end of the course the student shall be able to
1. Plan and interpret laboratory investigations for the diagnosis of infections disease of infections disease and to correlate the clinical manifestations with the etiological agent;
2. Identify the common infectious agents with the help of laboratory procedures and use antimicrobial sensitivity tests to select suitable antimicrobial agents;
3. Perform commonly employed bed-side tests for detection of in infectious agents such as blood film for filarial, gram staining and Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB) staining and stool sample for ova cyst etc.
4. Use the correct method of collection storage and transport of clinical material for microbiological investigations.

C) INTEGRATION:
The student shall understand infectious diseases of national importance relation to the clinical therapeutic and preventive aspects.
D) CURRICULUM
i) General microbiology
1. Microbiology and medicine
2. Morphology and a structure of bacteria
3. Growth and nutrition of bacteria
4. Classification and identification of microorganisms with special reference to bacteria
5. Sterilization and disinfections.
6. Antimicrobial agents: mode of action against bacteria
7. Bacterial genetics
8. Bacterial pathogenicity: source and spread of infection in the community immunological principles antigens antibodies and antigen antibody reaction
9. Natural and acquired immunity
10. Viruses structure composition classification
11. Virus cell interactions virus genetics antiviral agents
12. Virus infections pathogenesis immunity laboratory diagnosis.
ii) Systemic microbiology

1. Staphylococcus
2. Streptococcus
3. Pneumococcus
4. Lactobacillus
5. Bordetella
6. Haemophilus
7. Corynebacterium
8. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
9. Atypical mycobacteria & mycobacterium leprae
10. Actinomycetes: nocardea
11. Neisseria
12. Salmonella
13. Shigella
14. Eschericha coli, klebsiella, proteus
15. Vibrio: sprillum
16.  Pseudomonas
17. Antrax bacillus
18. Brucella
19. Yersinia: pasteurella prancisella
20. Bacteriodes- fusobacterium group and leptorichia
21. Chlostridium: 1. Cl. Welchii
22. Clostridium:2. Cl. Tetani, cl. Botulinum others
23. Treponema: borrelia
24. Leptospira
25. Pozviruses
26. Herpesviruses
27. Adenoviruses
28. Orthomyzoviruses (influenza viruses types A,B and C)
29. a.Paramyzoviruses  & other
     b.Rubella, Corona, RNA viruses
30. Picornavirusis
31. Hepatitis viruses
32. Arboviruses
33. Rhabdoviruses
34. Slow and Oncogenic viruses HIV & AIDS
35. Chlamydiae
36. Rickettsiae
37. Mycoplasma
38. Pathogenic fungi
39. Protozoa
    iii) Parasitology
    01. General consideration regarding nomenclature and host parasite relationship.
    02. Morphological identification, mode of infection life cycle pathogenicity and laboratory diagnosis of disease produced by these parasite in men, e.g. protozoa including Rhisopoda. Sporozoa, Mastigophora and Ciliate, Helminths including Nematodes Cystodes and trematodes.
    03.Medical entomology: arthropods transmitting infection to man, e.g. housefly , louse, sandfly, tetsefly mosquitoes, fieas, ticks and mites, snails, cyolops, etc., with reference to theire identity and diseases transmitted by them.
    PRACTICALS
    Practicals and demonstration in bacteriology and Parasitology to cover the above subjects with special with emphasis on common loboratory techniques.

CURRICULUM FOR M.D

GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY

1. History of microbiology, including development in last 25 years & progress in molecular biology.
2. Morphology of bacteria with emphasis on functional aspect of each part. Discussion on site of action of different anti microbials
3. Physiology  - Growth & multiplication of bacteria including growth curve, nutritional requirement & other environmental factors like PH, O2, temperature etc.
4. Sterilization & disinfection with special emphasis on recently available disinfectant, control of sterilization, organization of C.S.S.D.
5. Culture media – preparation of common media & importance of special media for fastidious organisms. Anarobic culture methodologies for anarobes.
6. Identification of bacteria – Systemic plan for identification of bacteria. Covering morphology, staining reaction, cultural characteristics, resistance to heat & other chemical, biochemical reaction, serological reaction for antigen detection & other relevant test.
7. Bacterial genetics – Nucleic acid, plasmid, genotypic & phenotypic variation in bacteria, genetic engineering & practical application like gene probes, PCR etc. in early diagnosis of the microbial infection, drug resistance theories.
8. Host & parasitic relationship, infection – Types & emphasis on recently diagnosed infections including opportunistic infections.

IMMUNOLOGY

9. Immunity – Innate & acquired immunity with emphasis on currently available vaccines.
10. Antigens, Antibodies, Antigen – Antibody reaction with emphasis on recently available techniques of bloating tests, immunofluorescent test etc.
11. Structure & fuction  immune system. Complement system.
12. Immune response Humoral & cellular immune response with emphasis on role of cytokones.
13. Immunodeficiency diseases & Autoimmune diseases with emphasis on opportunistic infection due to HIV epidemic.
14. Immunohematology & immunology of transplantation.

SYSTEMIC BACTERIOLOGY

15. Staphylococcus with emphasis on MRSA in hospital infection.
16. Staphylococcus with emphasis on enterococci & streptococcus pneumonia.
17. Neisseria meningitides & neisseria gonorrhoea.
18. Corynebacteria diphtheria.
19. Bacillus – B. Cereus food poisoning as Chinese food getting popular.
20. Clostridium perfringence, tetani & defficile.
21. Non sporing anaerobes – cocci & bacilli as important pathogens.
22. Enterobacteriaceae.

1. Coliform – E.coli – important pathogens.
2. Proteus
3. Shigella – plasmid medicated drug resistance transfer.
4. Salmonella – drug resistant strains.
5. Other important members of this group.

23. Vibrios.
24. Pseudomonas.
25. Yersinia.
26. Hemophilus, Bordetella, Brucella
27. Mycobacterium, Tuberculosis, Atypical Mycobacterium with increasing incidence of HIV infection.
28. Mycobacterium leprea.
29. Spirochetes – Leptospira.
30. Mycoplasma.
31. Actinomycetes.
32. Miscellaneous bacteria like Listeria monocytogenes, acinobacter calcoaceticus, camphlobacter, H. pylori, legionella pneumophilia & gardanella vaginalis.
33. Rickettsiaceae.
34. Chlamydiae.

VIRUSES

35. General properties, replication, cultivation, laboratory diagnosis.
36. Bacteriophage.
37. Poxvirus, Herpes virus, Adenovirus, Picorba virus, Myxovirus, Arbovirus, Rhabdovirus, Hepatitis virus, Slowvirus, HIV virus.

MYCOLOGY

38. General characters, classification, superficial & deep mycosis & opportunistic fungi.
39. Immunoprophylaxis.
40. Nosocomial infection.
41. Hospital waste management.

PARASITOLOGY

42. Protozoa, Entemiba, Toxoplasma, Sporozoa in immunocompromized host, plasmodia, Leismania, Cestodes, Nematodes & Trematodes. Filaria & Dracanculus infestation & Recently available techniques for diagnosis of parasitic disease.

CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

43. Investigation of cases of gastroenteritis, UTI, meningitis, respiratory diseases, STD, PUO, etc. Postoperative outbreak in ophthalmology, surgery, orthopedics. Septicemic & meningitis outbreak in neonatal ward, burns wards.

RECENT ADVANCES IN MICROBIOLOGY
 
     44. recent advances in microbiology & other related topics.

Extra Activity

Co-curricular Activities

• Contribution to College Souvenir every time by staff members
• Contribution to other activities by guidance to the students from staff members
• Museum of microbiology department large number of exclusive charts and models which are frequently visited by concern students

Examination Pattern

University Examination

Three Internal credit exanination- Theory and Practical
Two Internal Examination - Theory and Practical out of 40 marks
Prelims- Two papers each of 40 marks and practical of 40 marks
University- Two papers each of 40 marks
Practical 25 marks and viva 15marks
Internal Marks -15 marks each for Theory and Practical

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