MI2021 - Microbiology and Immunology

Credit points:	03
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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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 Outcomes

• manipulate micro-organisms in the laboratory and be familiar with the basic principles of their isolation and identification;
• recognise the relevance of bacterial genetics as the basis for recombinant DNA technology;
• understand the basic concepts of how bacteria, viruses and protozoan and metazoan parasites are able to cause disease in animals and humans;
• understand the principal mechanisms of bacterial variation;
• understand the role of the immune response in infectious and non-infectious disease.

Prerequisites:	MI2011
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	PC2201 and TV5120 and TV5010

Availabilities
, , Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2005
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Jeffrey Warner.
Contact hours:	39 hours 36 hours
Assessment:	(60%); (20%); (20%).

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