MI3031 - Aquatic Microbial Pathobiology
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | School of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences |
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 students to research;
- introduce students to the major aquatic diseases in Australia;
- 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: | MI2031 or MI2011 or MI2021 or BM1000 or BZ1001 or PC2201 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | MI5031 and TV5240 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 26-Aug-2010 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Assoc. Professor Leigh Owens. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); thesis (25%); assignments (15%). |
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