Internal Medicine: Clinical Infectology

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Topic

The role of the subject in the fulfilment of the educational targets, short summary of the topics: The main goal is to acquire knowledge and understanding of the etiology, epidemiology, clinical appearance, differential diagnosis, therapy and the prevention of infectious diseases. The topic includes the immunological aspects of the infectious diseases, hospital hygiene, clinical epidemiology, nosocomial infections, sepsis, and the differential diagnosis of feverish diseases, antibiotic policy also. During practical teachings, the students will be taught on taking the patient?s history suspected for infectious diseases, to perform simple laboratory tests, like reading of blood smear, performing abdominal, chest and lumbar taps.

Lectures

• 1.

  Introduction in infectology

  - Péterfi Zoltán
• 2. Clinical microbiology - Kocsis Béla
• 3.

  Infection control

  - Kappéter Ágnes
• 4.

  Antimicrobial therapy

  - Péterfi Zoltán
• 13.

  Skin and wound infections

  - Kappéter Ágnes
• 7.

  Zoonoses

  - Péterfi Zoltán
• 6.

  Food and waterborne diseases

  - Halda-Kiss Bernadett
• 8.

  Infections of the central nervous system

  - Sipos Dávid (I. Bel)
• 12.

  Respiratory tract infections

  - Kappéter Ágnes
• 5.

  Hepatitis

  - Nemes Zsuzsanna
• 14.

  Migrations-related infectious diseases (malaria)

  - Feiszt Zsófia
• 9.

  Infectious diseases of the childhood

  - Nyul Zoltán
• 10.

  Bloodstream infections

  - Sipos Dávid (I. Bel)
• 11.

  AIDS

  - Feiszt Zsófia

Practices

• 1. Introduction in infectology
• 2. Infections of skin and soft tissues
• 3. Infections of skin and soft tissues
• 4. Infections of skin and soft tissues
• 5. Zoonoses
• 6. Zoonoses
• 7. Zoonoses
• 8. Zoonoses
• 9. Infectious diseases of the childhood
• 10. Infectious diseases of the childhood
• 11. Infections of the central nervous system
• 12. Infections of the central nervous system
• 13. Migration-related infectious diseases (malaria)
• 14. Migration-related infectious diseases (malaria)
• 15. Food and waterborne diseases
• 16. Food and waterborne diseases
• 17. Hepatitis
• 18. Hepatitis
• 19. Bloodstream infections
• 20. Bloodstream infections
• 21. Infective endocarditis
• 22. Infective endocarditis
• 23. Differential diagnosis of fever, fever of unknown origin (FUO)
• 24. Differential diagnosis of fever, fever of unknown origin (FUO)
• 25. Antimicrobial therapy
• 26. Antimicrobial therapy
• 27. Practice exam
• 28. Practice exam

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Antibiotic Education Program (online): https://peterfiz.github.io/Antibiotics/

Infectology Textbook (online): https://peterfiz.github.io/infectology/

Notes

Recommended literature

Proposed books (English):

Harrold's Internal Medicine

Mandel's Principles and Practices of Infectious Diseases

Manson's Tropical Diseases

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

The attendance of the practices is obligatory. Only 2 absences are permitted (max 15%) from practices. The head of dep. can permit four practices to be fulfilled at different times, beyond the scheduled time table. The students are obligated to perform exam (practical and oral) at the end of the semester.

Mid-term exams

Students take a written test during the exam period with the exam topics listed below. The result of the written test gives 80% of the final grade. 5 written exams are scheduled. Performance during the practices in the instruction period and the result of an oral practical exam held during the last two weeks of the instruction period account for 20% of the final grade.

Making up for missed classes

The absences can be substituted by joining to another group.

Compensation of absences: obtaining permission from the head of the dept.

Exam topics/questions

1. The strategies of antibiotic treatment

2. Causes of antibiotic treatment failure

3. Groups of beta-lactam antibiotics, their treatment indications

4. Protein synthesis inhibitor antibiotics (aminoglycosides, macrolides, lincosamides, tetracyclines, chloramphenicol)

5. Fluoroquinolons

6. Glycopeptides

7. Novel antimicrobials and their mechanism of action

8. Differential diagnosis of febrile conditions. FUO

9. Diagnostics of infectious endocarditis

10. Infectious endocarditis (therapeutic options, prophylaxis)

11. Salmonellosis

12. Dysenteria syndrome

13. Cholera

14. E. coli enteritis

15. Campylobacter enteritis

16. Enteritis virus

17. Travelers' diarrhea

18. Clostridioides difficile colitis

19. Amoebiasis

20. Giardiasis

21. Ascariasis

22. Teniasis

23. Echinococcosis

24. Enterobiasis

25. Trichinellosis

26. Toxocariasis

27. Upper respiratory tract infections

28. Influenza

29. Streptococcal infections (S. pyogenes, S. agalactiae, S. pneumoniae, S. bovis, etc.)

30. Infectious mononucleosis, Mononusleosis sy

31. Q fever

32. Psittacosis

33. Legionellosis

34. Parotitis epidemica

35. SEA

36. HBV

37. HCV

38. HDV

39. HEV

40. Prophylaxis of acute hepatitis

41. Scarlatina

42. Measles

43. Rubella

44. Exanthema subitum

45. Diseases caused by varicella-zoster virus

46. Herpes virus infections

47. Toxic shock syndrome, necrotising fasciitis

48. Anthrax

49. Tularemia

50. Leptospirosis

51. Toxoplasmosis

52. Sepsis, sepsis syndrome

53. Botulism

54. Lyme disease (acute, subacute, chromic symptoms, therapeutic options)

55. Aseptic meningitis

56. Bacterial meningitis

57. Herpes encephalitis

58. Antibiotic treatment of purulent meningitis

59. Tick borne encephalitis

60. Infections associated with acquired immunodeficiency

61. Epidemiology of HIV

62. Clinical picture of HIV infection

63. Treatment of HIV, the possibilities of prophylaxis

64. Neutropenic infections

65. Importable diseases and travel-related prevention options

66. Malaria

67. Nosocomialis infections

68. Pertussis

69. Rabies

Examiners

• Feiszt Zsófia
• Halda-Kiss Bernadett
• Kappéter Ágnes
• Péterfi Zoltán
• Sipos Dávid (I. Bel)

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Halda-Kiss Bernadett
• Kappéter Ágnes
• Nemes Zsuzsanna
• Péterfi Zoltán