The thoeoritical lectures of Clinical Microbiology I (LM 323) course will provide students with the fundamental principles of clinical diagnostic microbiology. This course will cover applications of clinical (medical) microbiology and instructions in the theory, bacterial pathogenesis , and practical applications including: specimen collection, setup, standard identification methods, susceptibility testing, and reporting procedures and protocols. The laboratory exercises will provide the students with the most comprehensive experiences possible and will depend mainly on the commonly measured differential characteristics of selected pathogenic bacterial groups. The structure of microorganisms including the pathogenic properties of bacteria, fungi, and viruses are examined in detail. Basic genetic and molecular biological concepts are integrated and connected to clinical manifestations of disease. The course will cover general principles of infectious diseases and clinical microbiology laboratory diagnosis. Students will acquire an understanding of the physiological and virulence properties of pathogenic bacterial microorganisms and epidemiological factors contributing to human infectious disease; and an introduction to the activities and uses of antimicrobial agents for treatment (diagnostic microbiology course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of infectious disease microbiology focuses on the laboratory analysis of clinical microbiology specimens in cases when an infectious diseases are suspected). This course includes (contains): isolation, classification, detection, and characterization of high number of bacteria that can cause many infectious diseases. The course will focus on the detection (isolation) and identification of infectious bacterial agents (common pathogens) in the clinical microbiology laboratory that can cause diseases in different sites of human host by selecting standard microbiological methods (apply appropriate laboratory techniques for the identification of pathogenic microorganisms isolated from clinical microbiological specimens).