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Basic concepts:
Microbes, colonization and infection
Basic diagnostic methods to detect dental infections
Antimicrobial medicines, how they act, and how their overuse has
contributed to the rapid emergence of resistance in Primary Health
Care
Microscopy
Culture
(solid or liquid media) Antibody detection
(IgG or IgM)
Molecular (detection of DNA, RNA, protein)
Biomarkers of infection
Antigen detection assays (C Reactive Protein)
(detection of protein)
The Role of the Microbiology Laboratory
The Role of the Microbiology Laboratory
Patient
6 1
Post analytical Pre analytical
(Dentist) (Dentist)
5 2
4 3
analytical
(Laboratory)
Considerations for antimicrobial therapy
Bactericidal and Bacteriostatic antibiotic