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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

311038 (v.1) Antimicrobial Chemotherapies 220

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Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.

Area: School of Pharmacy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
Lecture: 3 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 311030 (v.1) Immunology and Infectious Diseases for Pharmacists 221 or any previous version
OR
11677 (v.3) Pharmaceutical Biology 233 or any previous version
Syllabus: Selective toxicity - scope of antimicrobial chemotherapy. Chemotherapy versus Pharmacodynamics. Principles of selective toxicity - distribution, comparative biochemistry, comparative cytology. Classifications of antibiotics. Principles of treatment - clinical diagnosis; bacteriological diagnosis; place of chemotherapy in medicine; considerations relevant to effective antibiotic use; reasons for treatment failure. Investigations of the mechanism of action, spectrum, absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion and adverse events of the major classes of antimicrobial agents including: Sulfonamides/Trimethoprim; Penicillins, Cephalasporins and other Beta-lactam drugs; Aminoglycosides; Protein synthesis inhibitors; Anti-tuberculoids; Anti-malarials; Anti-virals; Anti-fungals and miscellaneous antimicrobial agents. Mechanisms for the development of antimicrobial resistance Antimicrobial combination therapy and antibiotic policies.
Field of Education: 060117 Internal Medicine
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External