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. Clinical microbiology - Kocsis Béla
• 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

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. The protein synthesis inhibitors ( aminoglicosides, macrolides, lincosamides, tetracyclines, chloramphenicol)

3. The possible reasons of the unsuccessful antibiotic treatment

4. The beta lactame antibiotics groups and their indications for treatment

5. Fluoroquinolones

6. Glicopeptides

7. New antibiotics and their antimicrobial spectrum

8. Differential diagnosis of fever of unknown origin (FUO)

9. Infective endocarditis: diagnosis

10. infective endocarditis: therapy

11. Salmonella gastroenteritis

12. Dysentery syndrome

13. E. coli enteritis

14. Campylobacter infection (gastroenteritis)

15. Viral enteritis

16. Traveller’s diarrhea

17. Pseudo membranous enteritis (Clostridium difficile infection)

18. Amoebiasis

19. Giardiasis

20. Ascariasis

21. Teniasis

22. Echinococcosis

23. Enterobiosis

24. Trichinellosis

25. Toxocariasis

26. Common cold

27. Influenza (Flu)

28. Streptococcal infections (S. pyogenes, S. agalactiae, S. pneumoniae, S. bovis, stb.)

29. Infectious mononucleosis, mononucleosis syndrome

30. Q-fever

31. Psittacosis

32. Legionellosis

33. Parotitis epidemica

34. HAV

35. HBV

36. HCV

37. HDV

38. HEV

39. The profilaxis of viral hepatitis

40. Scarlatina

41. Measles

42. Rubella

43. Exanthema subitum

44. Varicella-zooster (chickenpox, shingles)

45. Herpes simplex virus infections

46. Toxic shock syndrome, necrotising fasciitis

47. Anthrax

48. Tularemia

49. Leptospirosis

50. Toxoplasmosis

51. Sepsis, sepsis syndrome

52. Botulism

53. Lyme disease (acute, subacute, chronic symptoms, therapy)

54. Aseptic meningitis

55. Purulent meningitis

56. Meningitis epidemica (meningococcal meningitis)

57. The treatment possibilities of purulent meningitis

58. Tick-borne encephalitis

59. Herpes simplex encephalitis

60. Infections in immunocompromised patients

61. Epidemiology of AIDS

62. Clinical stages of AIDS

63. Treatment and prevention possibilities of AIDS

64. Rabies

65. Travel/related imported diseases

66. Malaria

67. Nosocomial infections

68. Pertussis

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