Medical microbiology is a particular field of microbiology that one can purse in studying and the identification of infectious pathogens. For example, I myself study and actually work in the medical microbiology field, what this contains is bacteriology and plating/culturing bacteria from various courses (blood, skin, septum, stool, etc) onto various agar plates and in various incubation conditions (normal blood agar, chocolate blood agar with Co2, CLED agar, etc) for identification of potential pathogenic microbes and/or there pathogenic byproducts such as toxins produced by S. aureus that could be a potential cause of the symptoms and other laboratory workups seen by a patient. This not only includes bacteria, but also virology, fungal/mold infections, and parasitic infections. This not only includes plating but also molecular work such as PCR, RT-PCR, ELISA, micro-dilutions etc to be able to send out a pre-report of a pathogen to help doctors and clinicians give the right and prompt treatments.
