Applied microbiology
Next offered by distance in 1996
BS BC BP BDT
Ms Diana Richards
6 points * Second semester * 8 hours of integrated lectures and laboratory per week * Gippsland/Distance. When offered by distance, laboratory work is completed in a seven-day block * Prerequisites: GAS2122
Non-specific host defence against infection. Fundamentals of immunology and immunological techniques; aspects of immunopathology. Microbiological laboratory safety. Epidemiology of infectious disease. Pathogenicity and determinants of disease. Laboratory diagnosis of infectious disease. Infectious diseases of the digestive tract, skin, respiratory tract, nervous system, blood, lymph, muscle and internal organs. Chemotherapy of infectious diseases. Veterinary microbiology. The laboratory program includes individual projects in diagnostic microbiology.
Assessment
Tests: 60% * Laboratory work and Projects: 40% * Satisfactory performance in both written tests and laboratory work is required to pass the subject * Relevance of laboratory work to theoretical study: the laboratory work is closely related to the theoretical material. The diagnostic microbiology laboratory work is closely tied to, and run in cooperation with, local medical microbiology laboratories
Prescribed texts
Davey E Immunology, a foundation text OUP, 1989
Recommended texts
Baron S Medical microbiology 2nd edn, Addison-Wesley, 1986
Finegold S M and Baron E J Bailey and Scott's diagnostic microbiology 8th edn, Mosby, 1990
Jawetz E and Melnick J L Review of medical microbiology 17th edn, Appleton and Lange, 1987
Lennette E H and others (eds) Manual of clinical microbiology 4th edn, American Society for Microbiology, 1986
Roitt I Essential immunology 6th edn, Blackwell Scientific, 1988
Sell S Basic immunology Elsevier, 1987
White D and Fenner F Medical virology 3rd edn, Academic Press, 1986