School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Medical Microbiology
  • Unit Code

    MMS2102
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Megan LLOYD

Description

This unit provides students with a knowledge and understanding of the nature of pathogens and the mechanisms underlying infectious disease development in humans. Students will gain the theoretical and practical foundations for clinical assessment and analysis of disease-causing pathogens, the growth and control of microorganisms, and disease prevention.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from SCH2235

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Determine the distinguishing features of the major groups of medically important microorganisms, including growth and metabolism.
  2. Determine the major microorganisms involved in human disease.
  3. Determine the medically important acellular microorganisms, the diseases caused and their control.
  4. Explain methods used to control the growth of microorganisms, including the prevention of disease due to microorganisms.
  5. Explain the immunological response of humans to microorganisms.
  6. Select and utilise appropriate methods of isolating and observing microorganisms.

Unit Content

  1. Acellular microorganisms (including viruses and prions) and their infectious processes.
  2. Commonly used laboratory tests for the isolation and detection of microbial infection.
  3. Health versus disease, investigation of microbial disease, epidemiological methods, methods in microbiology, and classification of infectious disease.
  4. Measurement of microbial growth, physical and chemical control of microbial growth, antibiotics and other chemotherapeutic agents.
  5. Mechanisms of immunity to microbial infection including non-specific, humoral and cell-mediated.
  6. The role of eukaryotic microorganisms in disease.

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be taught using lectures, tutorials, student research seminars and hands-on laboratory sessions. Blackboard will also be utilised for content delivery.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentLiterature review25%
TestLaboratory practical assessment25%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Medical Microbiology
  • Unit Code

    MMS2102
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Megan LLOYD

Description

This unit provides students with a knowledge and understanding of the nature of pathogens and the mechanisms underlying infectious disease development in humans. Students will gain the theoretical and practical foundations for clinical assessment and analysis of disease-causing pathogens, the growth and control of microorganisms, and disease prevention.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from SCH2235

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Determine the distinguishing features of the major groups of medically important microorganisms, including growth and metabolism.
  2. Determine the major microorganisms involved in human disease.
  3. Determine the medically important acellular microorganisms, the diseases caused and their control.
  4. Explain methods used to control the growth of microorganisms, including the prevention of disease due to microorganisms.
  5. Explain the immunological response of humans to microorganisms.
  6. Select and utilise appropriate methods of isolating and observing microorganisms.

Unit Content

  1. Acellular microorganisms (including viruses and prions) and their infectious processes.
  2. Commonly used laboratory tests for the isolation and detection of microbial infection.
  3. Health versus disease, investigation of microbial disease, epidemiological methods, methods in microbiology, and classification of infectious disease.
  4. Measurement of microbial growth, physical and chemical control of microbial growth, antibiotics and other chemotherapeutic agents.
  5. Mechanisms of immunity to microbial infection including non-specific, humoral and cell-mediated.
  6. The role of eukaryotic microorganisms in disease.

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be taught using lectures, tutorials, student research seminars and hands-on laboratory sessions. Blackboard will also be utilised for content delivery.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentLiterature review25%
TestLaboratory practical assessment25%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

Core Reading(s)

  • (2009). Medical microbiology. (6th ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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