TV5240 - Aquatic Pathobiology
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: |
Available to graduate students.
Normal anatomy and histology of aquatic invertebrates and vertebrates from a disease perspective; responses to disease; description of important infectious diseases of aquatic animals and control; case studies with an aquaculture bias; establishment of piscine cell lines.
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate the role quarantine plays in controlling aquatic disease;
- introduce diagnostic case studies;
- introduce students to the major aquatic diseases in Australia;
- introduce the students to research;
- introduce the students to the various methods of pathogen isolation and culture used when investigating fish kills;
- teach the students the diagnostic approach to disease control.
| Prerequisites: | MI2030 or MI2031 recommended |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | MI3031 and MI5031 |
Availabilities | |
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| Census Date 08-Sep-2006 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Assoc. Professor Leigh Owens. |
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| Assessment: | (65%); (25%); (10%). |
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