Syllabus
Lectures Microbiology 2 (3rd year, Winter Term) Lectures in 2 hour units 30 hours of lectures/termWeek Lecturer ThemePracticals (one week, total 25 hours):Students practisize collection of their own samples: throat swab, nose swab, urine and transport them to the laboratory.During the week they follow algorithm of routine bacteriological laboratory work-flow hands-on.Additionaly they obtain coded patiens samples: urine, stool, vaginal swab and blood culture.They investigate each sample making different tests. At the end they have to provide results for each sample:Determined pathogen and its sensitivity to antibioticsAdditionaly they perform Immunocard tests for different agents: viral or bacterial.
They interpret serological tests and detect genome of EBV or CMV using PCR
Annotation
Provides basic information on general and specialised human medical microbiology, virology, mycology and parasitology. Describes important human pathogens, their characteristic properties, pathogenicity mechanisms of the diseases they induce, and basics of the antibiotic, antifungal, antiviral and antioparasitic therapy of the diseases.
In practical hands-on learning provides important skills for bacteriological investigation of selected samples. The student will learn technics for clinical specimen collection, strategy of microbial identification and anti-microbial therapy.