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History of Infectoius Diseases

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OAF-FBT-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

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Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 24

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: BTK GYTK TTK

Topic

Epidemics of infectious diseases have always played a role in human history. The students can get an inside view of those infectious diseases, wich play an important role in our days. In spite of global efforts to decrease their mortality rates, some of these ancient diseases are still the deadliest in the world. Nowadays the threats of a bioterrorism attack is a real fear of mankind, because the technology to produce and use dangerous biological agents is potentially available. The effective fight against these attacks and infectious diseases means a significant challenge in the public health. Finally, in this course meet some of the people who developed the tools to identify microorganisms, the preventive measures and the vaccinations to prevent them, and the drugs to treat them.

Lectures

  • 1. Tropical illnesses 1. (Malaria) - Bőszné Murányi Edit
  • 2. Tropical illnesses 2. (Yellow Fever) - Bőszné Murányi Edit
  • 3. Tropical illnesses 3. (Asiatic cholera) - Bőszné Murányi Edit
  • 4. Influenza - Bőszné Murányi Edit
  • 5. HIV/AIDS - Bőszné Murányi Edit
  • 6. Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases - Bőszné Murányi Edit
  • 7. Epidemics and Wars I. - Bőszné Murányi Edit
  • 8. Bioterorrism - Bőszné Murányi Edit
  • 9. Discovery of Vaccination - Bőszné Murányi Edit
  • 10. Discovery of Antibiotics - Bőszné Murányi Edit
  • 11. Gallery of portraits (Famous Scientists and their Discoveries) - Bőszné Murányi Edit
  • 12. Infectious diseases - past, present and future - Bőszné Murányi Edit

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Educational material uploaded on Neptun.

Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

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Mid-term exams

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Making up for missed classes

Participation in lectures is obligatory which is registered.

Exam topics/questions

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Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

Rólunk