MI2021:03
Microbiology and Immunology
Townsville
Prerequisites: MI2010 or MI2011
Inadmissable Subject Combination: MI2020
39 lectures, 36 hours practicals. Second semester.
Students who do not meet the prerequisite may consult with the Head of School to ascertain whether they are eligible to enrol for the subject.
Staff: Assoc. Professor R Hirst.
The concepts of the pathogenesis of infectious and parasitic diseases. Specific and non-specific mechanisms of resistance to infectious and parasitic disease. The immune system and its role in infectious and non-infectious disease processes. Viral structure, taxonomy and replication and viral diseases. Bacterial, protozoan and metazoan taxonomy, classification and diseases of medical and veterinary significance. Microbial genetics and their application to recombinant DNA technology.
Learning Objectives:
- understand the basic concepts of how bacteria, viruses and protozoan and metazoan parasites are able to cause disease in animals and humans;
- understand the role of the immune response in infectious and non-infectious disease;
- understand the principal mechanisms of bacterial variation;
- recognise the relevance of bacterial genetics as the basis for recombinant DNA technology;
- manipulate micro-organisms in the laboratory and be familiar with the basic principles of their isolation and identification.
Assessment by laboratory reports (20%); assignment (20%); examination (60%).
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