Bacteriology is a branch of biology that looks at the shape, size, environment, genes, and biochemistry of bacteria, among many other things.

• In this part of microbiology, scientists try to find, classify, and describe different kinds of bacteria.
• Because thinking about and working with protozoa, fungi, and viruses is a lot like thinking about and working with bacteria, the field of bacteriology has tended to become known as microbiology.
• People used to use both terms interchangeably. But bacteriology can be thought of as a separate science.
• Bacteriology looks at bacteria and how they are used in medicine. Bacteriology grew out of the need for doctors to use the germ theory to test their concerns about food and wine going bad in the 1800s.
• Pathogenic bacteriology has made progress because people have found and studied the bacteria that cause diseases.
• Koch’s ideas helped people figure out the links between certain bacteria and certain diseases.
• Since then, bacteriology has made a lot of progress, such as with vaccines like diphtheria toxoid and tetanus toxoid that work well.
• There have also been vaccines like the one for typhoid that didn’t work as well and had side effects. Antibiotics were also found by studying bacteria.
• A bacteriologist is a microbiologist or someone who has been trained in the study of bacteria.
• A bacteriologist’s main job is to help prevent, diagnose, and predict diseases.
• In addition to health care, they may do things like epidemiological surveillance, quality auditing with biotechnology development, basic research, career-related management and teaching, scientist management, lab coordination, and blood banks.