Course: Infectious Diseases

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Course title Infectious Diseases
Course code INF/VA041
Organizational form of instruction Exercise + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study 4
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Prokeš Zdeněk, MUDr.
  • Chalupa Pavel, prof. MUDr. CSc.
  • Křenek Radomír, Mgr. MUDr. MBA
  • Bařinka Antonín, MUDr.
  • Smýkal Jan, MUDr.
  • Zeidlerová Alena, MUDr.
  • Hozáková Lubomíra, MUDr. Ph.D.
  • Orságová Irena, MUDr. Ph.D.
  • Rožnovský Luděk, doc. MUDr. CSc.
  • Zjevíková Alena, MUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Introduction of the problem of infectious diseases and relations to the other medical specializations, transmission of infectious diseases, epidemiologic links, clinical manifestation of infectious diseases, diferencial diagnosis and therapy. Viral hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, etiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, clinical features, serologic and PCR tests and laboratory findings, treatment, sequelae, chronic viral hepatitis B.C,E - treatment of them via virostatic drugs. GIT infections (pathogenesis of the infectious diarrhoea, bacterial and viral infectious diarrhoea, clinically important bacterial and viral carrier state). HIV/AIDS infection (stages, therapy, care of HIV/AIDS patiens), respiratory infections, herpetic infections, infectious exanthematous diseases, infectious diseases caused by Streptococci and Staphylococci, zoonose, infectious diseases in childhood. Basic informations about neuroinfections - bacterial and viral, lyme diseases, TBE encephalitis, meningococcal meningitis. Prion infections. Antibiotics from the view of infectionist, antibiotic resistence, antibiotic policy. Antivirotics. Antimycotics. Strategy of vaccination - contemporary status, view to the future. Infectious diseases and pregnancy. The infectious disease and the corticosteroid therapy. Anaerobic infections, tetanus. Clostridial infections. Fungal infection. The introduction to the problem of the geographic and travel medicine. Malaria, leishmaniosis, schistosomiasis. Clinical demonstration of the patients ? casuistry.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Observation, Training in job and motor Skils
Learning outcomes
The students are acquainted with common manifestations of infectious diseases, development of an infectious diseases including sepsis and septic shock. They expand their knowledge of common but also rarer bacterial, parasitic and viral infections. The students will acquire basic knowledge of diagnosis, differential diagnosis and possible treatment of common but also significant imported infectious diseases. They will become familiar with vaccination against some infectious diseases and other possibilities of prevention. They will acquire knowledge of the running of an infectious ward, its hygienic epidemiological routine and standards of patient´s isolation.
The student will be able to diagnose the most frequent infectious diseases including differential diagnostics and therapeutic possibilities, especially within the first contact with the patients suffering from infectious diaseases.
Prerequisites
Completion of course "Internal medicine 1".
CH0/VAB11
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CH0/VAB31 and IN0/VAA11
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IN0/VAA21 and CJA/VAB32
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CJA/VAB43 and PAT/VAA32
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PAT/VAB11 and PFY/VAA31
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PFY/VAB11 and PSY/VAB13
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PSY/VAB23 and FAR/VAA32
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FAR/VAB11 and IN2/VAA32
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IN2/VAB22 and FAR/VAB32 and IN2/VAB22
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IN2/VAB32

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark, Oral exam, Student performance, Dialog

To attend lectures and seminars. Credit is for active attendance at seminars and exercises. To study independently the recommended literature, any English textbook of Infectious Diseases. Oral examination.
Recommended literature
  • English educational platform Amboss available from https://ezdroje.upol.cz/.
  • Bannister, B., Begg, N., Gillespie, S. (2000). Infectious Disease. Willey-Blackwell.
  • Grist, N.R., Ho-Yen, D,O,, Walker, E, Williams, G,R. (1994). Diseases of Infection. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Hobstová, J., Ambrožová, H. (2012). Infectious Diseases. Prague: Karolinum.
  • Mandell, G.L., Bennett, J.E., Dolin, R. (1995). Mandell, Douglas and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. New York: Churchill Livingstone Inc.
  • Reese R.E., Betts, R.F. (1996). A Practical Approach to Infectious Diseases. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Study plan (Version): General Medicine (2025) Category: Medical sciences 4 Recommended year of study:4, Recommended semester: -