FVP:UOSP025 Infectious Diseases 2 - Course Information

UOSP025 Infectious Diseases 2

Extent and Intensity

0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

MUDr. Hana Ševčíková (lecturer)
MUDr. Hana Ševčíková (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. MUDr. Rastislav Maďar, Ph.D., MBA, FRCPS.
Institute of Paramedical Health Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava

Prerequisites (in Czech)

UOSP015 Infectious Diseases 1

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• General Nursing Studies (programme FVP, B5341-OSET)

Course objectives

The course is conceived as thematic theoretical and practical unit. The students will be provided with the most important general characteristics of microorganisms. The course will provide a basic structure of knowledge of bacteriology, virology, parasitology and mycology. The students will be provided with principles of occupational safety in hazardous workplaces, they will acquire detailed knowledge of principles of correct collecting and dispatching of infectious material, they will be acquainted with the most important laboratory microbiological examination methods.

Syllabus

• 1. Position of medical microbiology, infection medicine and immunology in the human health system. Legislative standards and legal provisions related to prevention of infection spreading.
  2. Macro- and microorganism relations and their importance for staying healthy, or for development of a disease.
  3. Important human bacterial agents.
  4. Important human viral agents.
  5. Viral hepatitides and other viral diseases and their importance in medicine.
  6. Estimation of a risk rate of viral agents effects on human beings' health conditions.
  7. Nosocominal (hospital) infections in nursing, dangers to patients, but also to medical staff.
  8. Main sources of viral agents' spreading in hospital facilities and institutions providing care of humans.
  9. Fundamentals of immunology and immunoprevention.
  10. Development of infectious diseases. Importance of immunology and immunosuppression to healthy and diseased population.
  11. Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. Prevention of viral hepatitis.
  12. Prevention of nosocominal (hospital) disease transmission. Measures after occurrence of a nosocominal infection. Prevention of viral diseases. Prevention of diarrheal diseases. Prevention of infectious diseases transmitted by ticks.
  

Literature

recommended literature
• ŠEVČÍKOVÁ, H. Přenosné choroby - speciální část A. Distanční studijní opora a e-learningový kurz. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2012. URL info
• ŠEVČÍKOVÁ, H. Přenosné choroby - speciální část B. Distanční studijní opora a e-learningový kurz. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2012. URL info
• MAĎAR, R. et al. Prevence nozokomiálních nákaz v klinické praxi. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2006. ISBN 80-247-1673-9. info
• GÖPFERTOVÁ, D.,PAZDIORA, P.,DÁŇOVÁ, J. Epidemiologie infekčních nemocí. Praha:Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2005. ISBN 80-2460-452-3. info
• LOBOVSKÁ, A. Infekční nemoci. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2002. ISBN 80-2460-116-8. info

not specified
• ŠEJDA, J., ŠMERHOVSKÝ, Z.,GÖPFERTOVÁ, D. Výkladový slovník epidemiologické terminologie. Praha:Grada, 2005. ISBN 80-2471-068-4. info
• TICHÁČEK,B. Základy epidemiologie. Praha: Galén, 1997. ISBN 80-8582-453-1. info

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Přednáška 1 HOD/TYD, Seminář 5 HOD/SEM.

Teacher's information

Attendance in a minimum of 80 % and passing the credit test are prerequisites of credit allocation.
Exam: written, a minimum of 80 % of correct answers is required.

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