Syllabus
1. Infections caused with streptococci and staphylococci / Rational use of antibacterial agents (3/1 hrs)
2. Syphilis, leptospirosis, Lyme disease and other spirochetal infections / Sexually transmitted infections (3/1 hrs)
3. HIV infection, AIDS, principles of treatment of HIV infection / Opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients (3/1 hrs)
4. Viral and bacterial gastrointestinal infections / Dehydratation; oral and parenteral rehydratation (3/1 hrs)
5. Viral hepatitis: diagnostics and treatment / Infections in i.v. drug users (IDU) (3/1 hrs)
6. Human herpetic infections: clinical course, diagnostics and treatment / Serology investigation of infectious diseases (3/1 hrs)
7. Cutaneous rash and other skin infections/ Principles of isolation of patients with infectious diseases (3/1 hrs)
8. Important zoonotic infections: tularemia, brucellosis, plaque, rabies / Rickettsial infections (3/1 hrs)
9. Human arboviral infections, viral hemorrhagic fevers / Bioterrorism and highly infectious agents: management and isolation of patients (3/1 hrs)
10. Diagnostics and treatment of important parasitic and mycotic infections / Demonstration of direct diagnostic methods (3/1 hrs)
11. Viral and bacterial infections of CNS/ Laboratory investigation of CSF (3/1 hrs)
12. Viral and bacterial pneumonia and other respiratory infections / Molecular investigations of infectious diseases (3/1 hrs)
Annotation
: Diagnostics and Therapy of Infectious Diseases is one semester course consisting of 12 four hours classes (3 hours of lectures plus one hour of seminars or practical demonstrations) with topics of important human viral, bacterial, mycotic and parasitic infections. It will take place at the Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Tropical Diseases of the Hospital Na Bulovce in Prague.
The course is focused on the clinical picture, diagnostics and management of human infectious diseases with main focus on the modern laboratory methods, antimicrobial therapy including resistance detection to antimicrobials and its molecular mechanisms. There will be demonstrated patients with infectious diseases.
Isolation word for patients with highly contagious infections will be visited. Direct and non-direct diagnostic methods at the microbiology and parasitology laboratories will be demonstrated.
The seminars will test knowledge and interpretation of important microbial diagnostic methods.