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Microbes in health and disease
BMS2052
Synopsis
This unit focuses on microorganisms that are relevant to health and disease in humans and animals.
Aspects of a variety of infectious organisms will be studied including, epidemiology, aetiology, pathogenesis, immunity, regulation and control of infection by drugs and vaccines and mechanisms of resistance.
Knowledge and skills will be gained and developed in lectures/workshops and practicals.
Sourced from the Monash Handbook 2026.
Quick facts
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 2
- Audience
- Undergraduate
- Type
- Coursework
- School
- Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
- Faculty
- School of Biomedical Sciences
- Handbook year
- 2026
Prerequisites (1)
- Molecular biologyBMS1062
What it unlocks (13)
- Molecular mechanisms of diseaseBMS3031
- Biomedical basis and epidemiology of human diseaseBMS3052
- Human pathology 1: Understanding disease processesHUP3011
- Human pathology 2: Pathology of human diseasesHUP3022
- Immunology in health and diseaseIMM2022
- Molecular and cellular immunologyIMM3031
- Clinical immunopathologyIMM3042
- Principles of applied immunologyIMM3051
- Clinical and research laboratory immunologyIMM3062
- Molecular microbiologyMIC3011
- Molecular virology and viral pathogenesisMIC3022
- Pathogenesis of bacterial infectious diseasesMIC3032
- Medical microbiologyMIC3041
Offerings (1)
- Second semesterClayton · ON-CAMPUS