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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.

311405 (v.1) Medical Microbiology 235

Area: School of Biomedical Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Practical: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 302467 (v.2) Introduction to Microbiology 132
OR
313400 (v.2) Biomedical Science 100 or any previous version
Syllabus: Prokaryotic cell structure and its significance in understanding virulence properties of pathogens and action of antibacterial drugs. Taxonomic principles and their application to medically important microbes. Basic introduction to host defence mechanisms against microbial pathogens. Principles and examples of virus and bacterial pathogenesis. Introduction to clinical microbiology and the principles of analysing human specimens for bacterial pathogens. Introduction to epidemiology and public health microbiology. Antibiotics and their mode of action. Antibiotic resistance mechanisms and the evolution of resistant microbes.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
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