Emerging and Re-emerging Infections - Clinical, Epidemiological and Social Challenges

Daten

Offizielle Daten in der Fachveröffentlichung für das folgende akademische Jahr: 2024-2025

Thematik

Infections, by definition, are interactions between a microorganism (the parasite in broad sense) and a host, with a temporary or permanent unfavourable outcome for the latter one. For this to happen, three conditions should co-exist: the host should be susceptible, the infecting organism should be equipped with factors (virulence factors) making it able to interact with the host and finally an encounter should take place between them. The first two ones are genetically determined and, on both sides, are subject to changes, to evolution or even co-evolution, that sudden genetic changes on the microbe’s side could affect. The chances of encounters, beyond environmental aspects, are created and influenced by social, behavioural, cultural and economic factors. Consequently, changes in any of these, as is currently being continuously witnessed to happen, the incidence of certain infectious diseases in a given region or even globally, can change, new type of diseases can appear, or ones of the past can re-appear often exhibiting altered clinical or epidemiological features.

During the course, using specific examples of outbreaks, cases and problems the biological, environmental and social driving forces behind these infections will be highlighted. Participants will be encouraged to recognize and identify the problems leading to the emergence and re-emergence of these infections and to discuss the possible diagnostic, clinical and public health solutions to control them.

Vorlesungen

• 1.

  Emerging infections - the driving forces behind

• 2.

  HIV

• 3. Coronaviruses - Kemenesi Gábor
• 4. Haemorrhagic fevers - Kemenesi Gábor
• 5.

  Vector-borne viruses

• 6. Legionellosis - Pál Tibor
• 7. Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli - Pál Tibor
• 8. Regional emergence and spread – Vibrio cholerae - Pál Tibor
• 9. Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis - Pál Tibor
• 10. Emerging sexually transmitted infections (STI) - Pál Tibor
• 11. Emerging fungal infections - Pál Ágnes Mária (Sonnevend)
• 12. Emerging parasitic infections - Palkovics Tamás

Praktika

Seminare

Materialien zum Aneignen des Lehrstoffes

Obligatorische Literatur

Vom Institut veröffentlichter Lehrstoff

Lecture notes as pdf files

Skript

Empfohlene Literatur

Murray P et al (eds) Medical Microbiology, 8th ed. ELSEVIER 2016

Voraussetzung zum Absolvieren des Semesters

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Semesteranforderungen

Individual discussions

Möglichkeiten zur Nachholung der Fehlzeiten

Individual discussions

Prüfungsfragen

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Prüfer

Praktika, Seminarleiter/innen