310490 (v.1) Medical Microbiology 331

Area:	School of Biomedical Sciences
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	7.0
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 4 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	8054 (v.9) Clinical Biochemistry 232 or any previous version OR 311405 (v.1) Medical Microbiology 235
Syllabus:	Study and discussion of: the structure, function, clinical significance and laboratory features of a range of viruses and fungi pathogenic to humans; the epidemiology, life cycles and laboratory diagnosis of selected parasites pathogenic to humans; the clinical significance, pathogenesis and laboratory features of various medical bacteria not discussed at the second year level; Antimicrobial chemotherapy: the mode of action, spectrum and use of the major groups of antibiotics and mechanisms of bacterial resistance to these agents, genetics of resistance spread and methods of laboratory detection of resistance; the process and methods of examination of clinical specimens as performed in diagnostic medical microbiology laboratories for the detection of 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:	019901 Medical 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
2009	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