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B.Sc. (Biotechnology) Medical Biotechnology Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

This is the TY BSc Biotechnology syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. The University still examines the earlier Choice Based papers alongside it — her third-year office registers name that scheme — so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.

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Major · Semester 6 · TY BSc Biotechnology · 2 credits · 50 marks

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Syllabus for Medical Biotechnology

Major · Semester 6 · TY BSc Biotechnology · 2 credits · 50 marks

Module I: Antibacterial Chemotherapeutic Agents

  • Discovery and design of antimicrobial agents: (2 lectures) ‒ Classification, selective toxicity, MIC, MLC
  • Cell wall synthesis inhibition: (2 lectures) ‒ Beta-lactams (Penicillin, Cephalosporins), Glycopeptides (Vancomycin), Polypeptides (Bacitracin).
  • Plasma membrane injury: (1 lecture) ‒ Polymyxin.
  • Protein synthesis inhibition: (2 lectures) ‒ Aminoglycosides, Tetracyclines, Chloramphenicol, Macrolides (Erythromycin).
  • Nucleic acid synthesis inhibition: (1 lecture) ‒ Quinolones, Rifampicin, Metronidazole.
  • Antimetabolites: (1 lecture) ‒ Sulphonamides, Trimethoprim.
  • Susceptibility testing: (3 lectures) ‒ Disk diffusion, broth dilution, E-test.
  • Resistance: (3 lectures) ‒ Mechanisms (efflux, beta-lactamases), origin/transmission; rational use/misuse, Overview of CLSI guidelines

Module II: Infectious Diseases-II, Non-bacterial chemotherapeutic agents

  • and Advanced Diagnostics :
  • Pathogenesis, clinical symptoms, laboratory diagnosis,
  • epidemiology, prophylaxis and treatment of Viral diseases: (7
  • lectures) ‒ Air borne viral diseases: Influenza, COVID ‒ Vector Borne viral diseases: Dengue, AIDS ‒ Parasitic diseases: Malaria (artemisinin-based therapies) ‒ Fungal diseases: Systemic mycoses (Histoplasmosis)
  • Antifungal drugs: (2 lectures) ‒ Azoles, Polyenes, Echinocandins, Pyrimidine Analogues
  • Antiviral drugs: (5 lectures) ‒ Drugs that target the viral DNA polymerase: Acyclovir, Gancyclovir ‒ Nucleoside and nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors: Zidovudine ‒ Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors: Nevirapine, Protease inhibitors ‒ Fusion inhibitors: Enfuvirtide
  • Advanced molecular diagnostics: (1 lecture) ‒ Multiplex panels, Digital PCR

Textbooks

  • 1 Textbook of Microbiology by Ananthanarayan & Paniker (11th Edition)
  • 2 Pharmacology by K.D. Tripathi (9th Edition)
  • 3 Molecular Diagnostics: Fundamentals, Methods and Clinical Applications – Lela Buckingham (3rd Edition, 2019)
  • 1 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Antimicrobial Drug Action by Franklin and Snow (6th Edition, 2005), Springer Science.
  • 2 Microbiology by Prescott Harley and Klein 5th edition Mc Graw Hill
  • 3 Medical Microbiology Jawetz,E., Brooks,G.E, Melnick,J.L., Butel,J.S Adelberg E. A 18th edition
  • 4 Medical Microbiology by Patrick Murray 5th edition
  • 5 Mim’s Medical Microbiology 5th edition
  • 6 Molecular Microbiology: Diagnostic Principles and Practice (3rd ed., 2016) by David H. Persing et al.
  • 7 Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (13th Edition)
  • 8 OpenStax Microbiology.

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Biotechnology) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

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