310172 (v.1) Molecular Microbiology 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:	There is mounting evidence for the re-emergence of infectious disease as a major threat to human health, particularly as more pathogens become resistant to current antimicrobial chemotherapy. Molecular analyses of microbial pathogenesis offer new insights and solutions for the surveillance, prevention and control of infectious diseases. This unit examines cutting-edge molecular techniques for investigating microbial pathogenesis including real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), signature-tagged mutagenesis, in vivo expression technology (IVET), microarray, genomics and proteomics. Some of the topics for detailed discussion include biosecurity and emerging infectious diseases, an update on the fight against selected current epidemics of infectious disease, molecular pathogenesis of viral, bacterial and protozoan diseases, surveillance and control of agricultural pathogens, and bacteria and viruses as causative agents of cancer.
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
2008	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