MI2021:03
Microbiology and Immunology
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
39 hours lectures, 36 hours practicals. Semester 2.
Staff: Mr J Warner.
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.
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%).