311405 (v.1) Medical Microbiology 235

Area:	School of Biomedical Sciences
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	5.0
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:	2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Practical:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	302467 (v.2) Introduction to Microbiology 132
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.
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Field of Education:	019901 Medical Science
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Supplemental *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