MCB606: Pharmaceutical Microbiology 6 credits (40-0-20)

Objectives

To provide in-depth understanding of the various groups of chemotherapeutic agents including mechanisms of development of resistance.

Contents

Classes and modes of action of chemotherapeutic agents; Principle of selective toxicity; mechanisms of development of resistance with emphasis on the biochemical and genetic basis of resistance; plasmids, transposons and inversion sequences as related to drug resistance.