MFIN1011p Infectious diseases

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. MUDr. Petr Husa, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Lenka Krbková, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Svatava Snopková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Matúš Mihalčin, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Lukáš Homola, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Petr Husa, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Václav Musil, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Kristýna Žaludová (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. MUDr. Petr Husa, CSc.
Department of Infectious Diseases – Joint workplaces with the University Hospital Brno - workplaces of the Bohunice and Mater. Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Supplier department: Department of Infectious Diseases – Joint workplaces with the University Hospital Brno - workplaces of the Bohunice and Mater. Hospital – Faculty of Medicine (60,00 %), Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases – Institutions shared with the Faculty Hospital Brno (paediatric medicine) – Faculty of Medicine (40,00 %)
Prerequisites (in Czech)
MFVL0933 Internal Medicine III
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
The lectures of infectious diseases have the lofty goals: to provide standards of care for the management of infectious diseases with particular emphasis on antimicrobial agents, non bacterial infections, specific types of infections - immunocompromised host, HIV/AIDS, other emerging infections and opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts, rapid advances in antibiotic and antiviral therapy in infectious diseases, new vaccines and new recommendations for management.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will:
- know the basic theoretical knowledge in the field of infectious diseases,
- know new discoveries in microbiology and infectious medicine,
- understand the relationship of infectious agents to some infectious diseases and their causal therapies.
Syllabus
  • 1. Viral hepatitis (types, mode of transmission, clinical manifestations, possibilities of therapy, vaccination) 2. HIV/AIDS (epidemiology, clinical categories, opportunistic infections) 3. Infectious diarrhea (bacterial: campylobacteriosis, salmonellosis, yersiniosis, shigellosis, diarrhea due to E. coli; viral: rotaviral and noroviral GIT infections) 4. Respiratory tract infections (influenza, laryngitis, epiglottitis, pneumonia) 5. Tick-borne infections (Lyme borreliosis, tick-borne encephalitis) 6. Pediatric infectious diseases (mainly chickenpox (+ shingles), scarlet fever, measles, German measles, the fifth and the sixth disease, mumps) 7. Vaccination (regular, special, exceptional)
Literature
Teaching methods
lecture, exercise
Assessment methods
colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 20.
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