Pharmaceutical Microbiology

Concepts of growth and death in micro-organisms. The chemistry of synthetic 

chemotherapeutic agents and antibiotics. Production and synthesis of antibiotics and antiseptics. Relationship of antimicrobial agents to different microbial groups: Gram positives, Gram negatives, spore-formers etc . The mode of action and assay of antibiotics and antiseptics. Sensitivity and resistance as related to microbial physiology. Microbiological quality control in the Pharmaceutical industry.