Syllabus
Optional subject for 5th year
Term: 23.11. - 27.11.2020
Beginning: 14,00 p.m.
Place: Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Na Bulovce, Budínova 2, Prague 8
Number of students: at least 5, maximum 20
Prerequisite: Internal Medicine, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Epidemiology
Practice: demonstration of patients with imported diseases or travel history (if they are just hospitalized)
Teachers: as. MUDr. František Stejskal, Ph.D., Department of Infectious Diseases, 2nd Medical Faculty as. MUDr. Milan Trojánek, Ph.D. ,Department of Infectious Diseases, 2nd Medical Faculty as. MUDr. Helena Ambrožová, Ph.D., Department of Infectious Diseases, 2nd Medical Faculty
Lectures and seminars:
• Introduction to travel medicine, international travel and health risks, infectious and non-infectious health problems, travellers‘ vaccinations. (Dr. Trojánek)
• Traveller‘s diarrhoea: etiology, prevention and management. ( Dr. Trojánek)
• Fever after return from the tropics: etiology, differential diagnosis, clinical management. (Dr. Stejskal)
• Arboviral infections (dengue, chikungunya, Zika), viral hemorhagic fevers (yellow fever, Ebola, Lassa), other important viral infections (MERS-CoV, poliomyelitis, rabies, measles). (Dr. Trojánek)
• The most important parasitic infections in tropical and subtropical regions. Malaria (diagnostics, treatment, prophylaxis). Other tropical parasitic infections. (Dr. Stejskal)
• Tropical bacterial infections: enteric fever, relapsing fever, plague, anthrax, brucellosis, melioidosis. Rickettsial infections. ( Dr. Stejskal)
• Differential diagnostics of tropical skin lessions.
• Differential diagnostics of tropical lung and liver diseases.
Literature: Beaching N.: Tropical Medicine: Lecture Notes, 2014, Wiley Blackwell, 7th ed.
Brent A., Davidson R., Seale A.: Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicin, 2014, Oxford Medical Handbooks, 4th ed.