Courses Handbook 2009

311038 (v.1) Antimicrobial Chemotherapies 220


Area: School of Pharmacy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
** 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. **
Lecture: 1 x 3 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.
** 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. **
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
2009 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

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