The Alphabet of the Elementary Microbiology: Revisited

Abstract

Organizations across the Globe support The Right to Education programs [1, 2]. The best stage to start learning is childhood. Child populations in the age groups 0-4 and 5-11 constitute around 46% of the children under 18 [3]. Approximately 1 billion children attend school on any given day around the world [2]. The urge to learn is a slow process. However, the scenario seems to have changed dramatically since the beginning of the Covid pandemic. The desire to learn has never been greater than that recorded in the case of Corona. Scientists, medical practitioners, and officials of WHO, Governments, Health Departments have been responding rapidly to learn more and advise the public. There has been a global agreement to share information on Covid-19 and ''Whoever finds the Vaccine must share it'' [4]. It may not be an over-exaggeration to state all school kids have learned that C stands for Corona. Teaching Microbiology and Biotechnology in schools and colleges has been initiated [5].

Microbiology in India: status, challenges and scope

“…With the ongoing pandemic of COVID‐19, caused by SARS‐COV‐2, it has become all the more important to disseminate microbial knowledge among the members of society and among children. Indian young microbiologists in association with the global community of concerned microbiologists have taken up the challenge of disseminating microbial literacy among society and children (Timmis et al ., 2019; McGenity et al ., 2020; Anand et al ., 2021).…”