This course is designed to familiarize the pharmacy students with the various characters of bacterial biofilms
in relation to their structure, pathogenicity & Diseases. The course will take into consideration to investigate
the decrease susceptibility of the bacterial biofilms from its planktonic counterparts towards antibiotics by
explaining the mechanisms of resistance used by the bacterial biofilms towards antimicrobial agents. The
virulence factors of the bacterial biofilms, quorum-sensing and development stages of the biofilm bacteria will
be also studied. Various antifungal and antiviral agents will be studied regarding their structure, activity,
mechanism of action and ways of microbial resistance to these agents.