Syllabus
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Annotation
Microbiology, Immunology and General Infectology
The goal of the course is to explain the relationships between individual reactivity of humans, pathogenic microorganisms and environment.The content of the course is general and clinical medical microbiology, immunology and general infectology. Immunology is taught in the winter semester, general infectology in the summer semester, microbiology in both semesters. The student will receive a partial credit for each subject. Their set will be the basis for granting credit for the entire course. Partial credit can be obtained after completing the prescribed part of course, ie in the winter semester they will be in microbiology and immunology, in the summer semester in microbiology and general infectology. At the end of the summer semester, students will receive a credit from the course on the basis of four partial credits. The purpose of the course from the point of view of a microbiologist is to teach students to understand the relationship between a pathogenic microorganism and its host in terms of adverse biological properties of the microorganism (pathogenicity, virulence) and in terms of defense of macroorganisms (nonspecific and specific immunity). The description of this relationship may be specified in the relevant nosological unit (infectious disease). Furthermore, the content of the subject is laboratory diagnostics, basics of treatment and prevention of infectious diseases. The course also teaches the principles of disease and the basic manifestations of diseases that have a non-infectious mechanism and immune system disorder is the basic or significant cause of the disease (autoimmune diseases, conditions of primary and secondary immunodeficiency and diseases caused by hypersensitivity). To facilitate teaching, clinical situations and case studies are used in some topics. In the summer semester, the course will include lectures on pathology and seminars on pharmacology. The exam is oral and includes microbiology, immunology and general infectology.