TV5240 - Aquatic Pathobiology

Credit points:	03
Year:	2007
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Aust Inst of Tropical Vet & Animal Sciences

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
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Leigh Owens.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 3 hours tutorials 36 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (65%); thesis (25%); case reports (10%).

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