Skip to content
Curtin University
Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

310490 (v.1) Medical Microbiology 331

Note

Tuition 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 Biomedical Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 311405 (v.1) Medical Microbiology 235 or any previous version
OR
302477 (v.2) Clinical Microbiology 232 or any previous version
Syllabus: Study and discussion of: the structure, function, clinical significance and laboratory features of a range of viruses and fungi pathogenic to humans; the epidemiology, life cycles and laboratory diagnosis of selected parasites pathogenic to humans; the clinical significance, pathogenesis and laboratory features of various medical bacteria not discussed at the second year level; Antimicrobial chemotherapy: the mode of action, spectrum and use of the major groups of antibiotics and mechanisms of bacterial resistance to these agents, genetics of resistance spread and methods of laboratory detection of resistance; the process and methods of examination of clinical specimens as performed in diagnostic medical microbiology laboratories for the detection of infectious diseases.
Field of Education: 019901 Medical Science
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 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