Microbiological Aspects of Tropical Infectious Diseases - FG50026

• Title: Microbiological Aspects of Tropical Infectious Diseases
• Guaranteed by: Department of Clinical Microbiology (15-560)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:15/15, C [HT]
• Capacity: 18
• Min. number of students: 5
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. MUDr. Pavel Boštík, Ph.D.
• Incompatibility : FA0105111, FV052
• Pre-requisite : FG10017
• Interchangeability : FV052
• Is incompatible with: FV138, FV139, FV052
• Is interchangeable with: FV139, FV052, FV138

Annotation

Last update: Eva Dyntarová (24.01.2023)

The short view of the epidemiology and prevention of infection diseases. Basic of communal hygiene and of drinking and waste water. Water as a source of infection. Training in parasitology (microscopy and identification of parasites). Selected topics in virology, bacteriology and mycology. Emerging infections in general (Anthrax, Cholera, Tularemia…), biohazard, bioterrorism.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Eva Dyntarová (24.01.2023)

Credit

1.  fulfill the attendance requirements (2 legitimate absence per term)
2.  have a mark of credit test up to 3,0  (51%)

Syllabus

Last update: Eva Dyntarová (24.01.2023)

Lecturer

•  Prof.P.Boštík, MD, Ph.D.

Lectures

1. General Epidemiology. Basic epidemiological terms. Personal and social hygiene - prevention of infectious diseases.
2. Waste, hazardous waste and communal hygiene. Water - source of infection. Drinkingwater treatment and wastewater treatment. 
3. Blood stream infections. Sepsis.
4. Infectious diseases in the era of global warming.
5. Biohazard. Bioterrorisms. Emerging infections in general ( Antrax, Yersinia pestis, Vibrio cholerae, Francisella tularensis,..)

Practical classes

1.  Virology - Viral hepatitis - differential  diagnostics. Viral emerging infections (dengue, ebola, marburg fever…) HIV - review.   praktikum
2.  Mycology - Epidemiology, laboratory diagnostics and the management of endemic mycoses.   praktikum
3.  Parasitology - blood parasites - theory and laboratory diagnostics (malaria, sleeping sickness, microphilaria, , babesia sp.)+ clinical cases. partI.  praktikum
4.  Parasitology - blood and tissue parasites -theory and laboratory diagnostics - Leishmania sp.,tissue parasites, Toxoplasma gondii, Toxocara canis. Pathogenic spirochetes + clinical cases. partII.  praktikum
5.  Parasitology - intestinal parasites, Entamoeba , Giardia, Balantidium ,other pathogenic protozoa and helminths in the GIT. Diagnostics, prevention,therapy + clinical case. CREDIT TEST.  praktikum

Literature

Last update: Eva Dyntarová (24.01.2023)

1. Goering R, et al. Mims' Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 6th Ed., Elsevier, 2018.

2. Greenwood D. Medical Microbiology, 18^th Ed., Elsevier, 2012