2998 (v.4) Chemotherapy 224


Area: School of Pharmacy
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
 
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Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 11677 (v.3) Pharmaceutical Biology 233 or any previous version
AND
11679 (v.4) Pharmaceutical Biology 231 or any previous version
Co Requisite(s): 8013 (v.5) Pharmacology 224
AND
12936 (v.2) Pharmaceutical Chemistry 200
AND
12937 (v.2) Pharmaceutics 200
 
Syllabus: Selective toxicity - scope of antimicrobial chemotherapy. Classifications of antibiotics. Principles of treatment - clinical diagnosis, bacteriological diagnosis, reasons for treatment failure. The antimicrobial action, absorption, distribution, elimination, untoward effects and their place in chemotherapy of the following drug groups - sulphonamides and trimethoprim, betalactams, inhibitors of protein synthesis, macrolides and tetracyclines.
 
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Field of Education: 60117 Internal Medicine
Funding Cluster: 09 - Dentistry, Medicine, Veterinary Science
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
2005 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
Area
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Central
External
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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