Microbiology: the cell that plays by different rules

Bacteria share almost no structure with your cells, and every difference matters. Work through the bacterial envelope and genome, then the arithmetic of exponential growth and why a plate count lies to you, then how antibiotics exploit those differences and how resistance defeats them, and finally how sequencing reads the vast majority of microbes nobody can grow. You will finish able to read a growth curve, work a viable count, and explain why a resistant infection is a population event rather than a patient one.