310669 (v.2) Emerging Infectious Diseases 631

Area:	School of Biomedical Sciences
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
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 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	Introduction to and highlights of current emerging infectious diseases and factors contributing to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases; categorization and special considerations of the significant emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Study of the contribution of microbial resistance to emerging infectious diseases. Study of and prevention strategies for MRSA infections, antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal infections, antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis, genital herpes, H5N1, anaplasmosis, West-Nile Fever and Ebola. Diagnostic and prevention strategies for haemolytic uraemic syndrome. Study of emerging faecal-oral route, Food- & Water-borne, Air-borne, Sexually Transmissible and Vector-borne infectious diseases (examples include Cholera,Whooping cough, HPV, Gonorrhoea, Chlamydiosis, SARS and Avian Influenza, Tularaemia, Lyme Disease, Viral Encephalitidis and Dengue Fever). Study and discussion of Bio-terrorism and infectious diseases.
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:	060100 Medical Studies (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Categorised *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
2010	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