8MEA04 · 7.5 credits · Advanced level (A1X) · Medicinsk biologi
Infection Biology - Clinical Perspectives
Discontinued · replaced by 8MEA19
100%
passed the latest regular sitting
BAS2 · 16 Jun 2025 · 6 students
100%
passed the regular sittings, all sittings over the last 5 years
BAS2 · 36 students
This module only reports passing results, so the pass rate does not show how many did not pass.
Part of 1 programme
Other module
BAS2 Tutorial groups
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 36 students
- 100%6
- 100%9
- 100%10
- 100%11
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Exam
EXAM Written examination
- VG
- G
- U
Ordinary exams
72% passed · 32 students
- 86%7
- 58%12
- 77%13
Re-exams
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get VG: 25% (32 students)
Show small sittings (10)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 67%3
- 50%4
- 100%4
- 67%3
- 0%1
- 100%1
- 50%4
- 0%1
- 33%3
- 25%4
Hand-in or lab
LAB2 Laboratory work
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 36 students
- 100%6
- 100%9
- 100%10
- 100%11
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
Other module
LITT Literature study
- VG
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 36 students
- 100%6
- 100%9
- 100%10
- 100%11
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get VG: 44% (36 students)
About the course
Aim
By the end of the course the students will be able to: Knowledge and understanding
- Describe the mode of action of different microorganisms pathogenic to humans
- Define the interactions between the human host and the infectious agent, from molecular to clinical level and apply this knowledge to describe clinical manifestations
- Apply the principles of mode of actions of virulence factors on the defence of the human body
Competence and skills
- Design and carry out laboratory experiments to investigate molecular mechanisms in the interactions between microorganisms and human cells
Judgement and approach
- Understand, analyze and critically discuss scientific papers in the field of infection biology
Content
- Microorganisms infecting the human body
- The host response to infectious micro organisms
- Virulence strategies and mechanisms exerted by the pathogenic micro organism
- The ecology of human flora of microorganisms - normal flora and pathogens
- Microorganisms and the immune system
- Vaccines and vaccine development
- Antimicrobial agents and resistance to them
- Epidemiology of human infectious diseases
- Zoonosis
- Infectious diseases in the perspective of global medicine
- Emerging infectious diseases
- Infections and human genetics
- Examiner
- Elena Vikström
- Main field of study
- Medicinsk biologi