BLIM051x Clinical Immunology - practice

Faculty of Medicine
autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/0/3.2. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Jana Nechvátalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Marcela Vlková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Miroslava Bučková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Marcela Vlková, Ph.D.
Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergology – Institutions shared with St. Anne's Faculty Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Michaela Gregorovičová
Supplier department: Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergology – Institutions shared with St. Anne's Faculty Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Thu 8:00–13:40 N05079
Prerequisites
BLIM0411c Clinical Immunology - practice
Completion of subjects BLIM0411c.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Laboratory practice supplements the practicals in clinical immunology subject. The students will get acquainted with organisation and practical the processing of the biological material from its reception to the final laboratory report. The students work under the supervision of experienced laboratory technicians and practically perform selected laboratory tests.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course the student shoud be able to preform under the supervision basic immunologic tests, undrstan the use of the laboratory information system and describe and practically use the knowledge of managing clinical immunology laboratory .
Syllabus
  • Good laboratory praxis – principles of quality assurance and quality control in the clinical immunology laboratory. National and international reference preparations.
  • Problems of establishing of „normal or reference ranges“.
  • Laboratory data logging.
  • The role of the laboratory technician in interpetaion of laboratory results interpretation.Standardization of immunoassays. Organizace provozu v imunologické laboratoři, základní dokumentace
  • Prepartion, handling and storing of patient´s sera
  • KDetaremination of protein concentration by turbidimetry and nephelometry
  • The use of immunoassays
  • Determination of complement and phagocytosis
  • phenotyping of cells by flow cytometry
  • Lymphocyte function tests
Literature
  • LITZMAN, Jiří, Tomáš FREIBERGER, Vlastimil KRÁL and Vojtěch THON. Základy vyšetření v klinické imunologii (Investigations in clinical immunology). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2007, 59 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-4227-8. info
  • BARTŮŇKOVÁ, Jiřina and Milan PAULÍK. Vyšetřovací metody v imunologii. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2005, 176 s. ISBN 8024706911. info
Teaching methods
Pracical work in the routine laboratory under the supervision of the experienced technicians.
Assessment methods
For obtainiung the credit at least 90% presence with adequate personal activity in laboratory is required.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 48.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, autumn 2019, autumn 2020, autumn 2021, autumn 2022, autumn 2023, autumn 2024.
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