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Save Yourself! - Improtant Facts and Informations about Vaccines

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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-VVV-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • autumn
Prerequisites:

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Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 20

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: GYTK

Topic

This course is dedicated to students who are interested in all aspects of vaccinology.

It is composed of 12 lectures presenting historical aspects of vaccines, practical informations about vaccines, vaccine safety, and the future challenges of vaccinology.

Lectures

  • 1. Introduction: history of vaccination, national immunization programmes, importance of immunization programmes, technical aspects (vaccine storage and handlings) - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
  • 2. Impact of vaccination on disease epidemiology;, Eradication, elimination or control - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
  • 3. Vaccine-preventable diseases: diphteria, pertussis, tetanus, - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
  • 4. Vaccine-preventable diseases: tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
  • 5. Vaccine-reventable diseases: morbilli, rubella, mumps - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
  • 6. Vaccine-preventable diseases: Varicella, Pneumococcus - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
  • 7. Vaccine-preventable diseases: Haemophylus influenzae B, HBV - Balogh Erika
  • 8. Travel Medicine and Vaccination - Balogh Erika
  • 9. Vaccines: Influenza, Meningococcus vaccine, Diarrhoeal diseases - Balogh Erika
  • 10. Occupational medicines and vaccination,; Adverse event following immunization (AEFI) - Balogh Erika
  • 11. Anti-vaccination movements (activity, global trends and communication) - Balogh Erika
  • 12. Future challenges: new vaccines (malaria, HIV, influenza etc.) Indications and contraindications for vaccines, vaccines for special groups (for pregnant women, for elderly etc.) - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

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Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

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Mid-term exams

The exam is a written one

Making up for missed classes

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Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

Rólunk