Undergraduate - UnitMIC3032 - Pathogenesis of bacterial infectious diseases

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2012 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 0 (NATIONAL PRIORITY), 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Science
Offered	Clayton Second semester 2012 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Dena Lyras

Synopsis

The unit will introduce the student to the methods and approaches used to analyse pathogenic mechanisms of bacterial infections. The emphasis is on genetic approaches to studying pathogenesis, processes in pathogenesis, bacterial exotoxins and endotoxins. The details of these processes for selected bacterial infections will be studied by discussion of the most recent scientific research literature in this area.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students will have gained a theoretical understanding of: genetic approaches used in the study of pathogenesis, processes in pathogenesis; adhesion, cell invasion, replication etc, bacterial endotoxins, bacterial exotoxins, current literature on pathogenic mechanisms in selected bacterial infections. Students will have acquired skills in: searching of the scientific literature, critical analysis of research papers, cooperative small group writing, planning, editing , writing and assembly of a scientific book.

Assessment

Written theory examination (2 hour): 50%
Submission of co-operative collection of essays (each essay up to 4000 words): 50%
There is no practical class associated with this unit.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Dena Lyras

Contact hours

Two 1-hour lectures and 2 hours of tutorial/discussion/research colloquium session per week

Prerequisites

BMS2052 or MIC2022