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Undergraduate Course: Diagnostics and therapeutics for infectious disease (BIME10025)

Course Outline
School	Deanery of Biomedical Sciences	College	College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	Lectures: This course will focus on applied and translational aspects of infectious disease research. The course emphasises modern research trends for the in diagnostics and therapeutics which are being developed to improve the detection, prevention and treatment of infectious disease. This course will cover 4 main themes Pathogen diagnostics ż Challenges of pathogen detection and surveillance ż Principles of pathogen diagnostics ż Molecular diagnostics for infectious disease ż Case study ż infection diagnostics in the clinic ż The role of the host response and biomarkers as a diagnostic tool for infection and disease Drugs targeting pathogens ż Principles, challenges and opportunities of drug therapeutics for infectious disease ż Case studies covering: ż Viral disease ż Bacteria and the antibiotic crisis ż Parasitic and fungal disease Vaccines ż Principles of vaccinology ż Challenges and opportunities ż Case studies covering: ż Viral, bacterial and parasitic disease Immunotherapy for infectious disease ż Principles of immune modulation and biologics for the treatment of infectious disease ż Manipulating T-cells and dendritic cells ż Antibody technologies ż Manipulating the immune response for bacterial disease ż Manipulating the immune response for viral disease A series of in-class sessions will be held to provide formative feedback for the summative assessments of the course.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	Students MUST have passed: Medical Microbiology 3 (BIME09002) AND Biomedical Sciences 3 (BIME09008) It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed Clinical Immunology & Haematology 3A (MSBM09005) OR Immunology 3 (BILG09007)	Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	Students who are either enrolled on the BSc (Hons) Medical Sciences, or who spent their third year abroad, or who are taking an intercalated year, are exempt from the requirement to have taken and passed Biomedical Sciences 3.

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 40, Summative Assessment Hours 3, Revision Session Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 151 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 60 %, Coursework 40 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	40% ICA ż incorporating an oral presentation and poster presentation related to a course topic 60% Exam
Feedback	Feedback will be available throughout the course in many forms: ż Feedback from course organiser and peers on your poster presentations ż Mid-course feedback session, as well as several sessions later in the course to go over exam questions and techniques as well as specific student questions about topics has been timetabled for students ż Feedback from the exam will be made available ż please contact BMTO staff for more information about how and when this will be done
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)	Diagnostics and therapeutics for infectious disease		1:30

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Explain and identify the importance of applied and translational aspects of infectious disease research, especially in relation to healthcare systems Explain the main techniques for pathogen diagnostics ranging from established approaches to modern molecular based systems Explain the principles and importance of drug therapeutics for infectious disease Explain the principles of immunotherapy and how this is applied as a therapeutic for infectious disease Demonstrate the ability to illustrate and present information regarding a particular infectious disease in poster format and critically analyse the scientific literature through the study of key papers.

Reading List
Mims CA, Nash A & Stephen J (2001). Mimsż pathogenesis of infectious disease, 5th edn, Elsevier. ISBN: 9780124982642 Goering R, Dockrell H, Zuckerman M, Roitt I & Chiodini P (2012). Mimsż medical microbiology, 5th edn, Saunders. ISBN: 9780723436010 Murray PR, Rosenthal KS & Pfaller MA (2009). Medical microbiology 7th edn, Mosby Elsevier. ISBN: 9780323086929 Thomson C, Miles R & Amyes SBG (1996). Antimicrobial chemotherapy, Informa. ISBN: 9781853173899 Salyers AA, Wilson BA, Whitt DD & Winkler ME (2010). Bacterial pathogenesis: a molecular approach, 3rd edn, ASM press. ISBN: 9781555814182 Flint SJ, Enquist LW, Krug RM, Racaniello VR & Skalka AM (2009). Principles of virology, 3rd edn,. vol 1 Molecular biology ISBN: 9781555814793, vol 2 Pathogenesis and control IBN: 9781555814809, ASM press Murphy K (2011). Janewayżs immunobiology, 8th edn, Garland Science. ISBN:9780815342434

Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills	Not entered
Keywords	Pathogen diagnostics, pathogen therapeutics, antibiotic, antiviral, vaccine, immunotherapy, virus, b

Contacts
Course organiser	Dr Simon Talbot Tel: (0131 6)50 7938 Email:	Course secretary	Ms Caroline Morris Tel: (0131 6)51 3255 Email:

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