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Tropical Medicine

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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: OAE-TRM-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Elective modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 20

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: ETK

Topic

Because of the extent tourism and migration rare imported tropical diseases are common all over the world. The knowledge of prevention, clinical symptoms and differential diagnostic issues of tropical diseases is useful to every physician because misdiagnosis or the lack of therapy can threat the patient?s life.

The course involve travel medicine issues as well.

Lectures

  • 1. Preparing for travel - Feiszt Zsófia
  • 2. Preparing for travel - Feiszt Zsófia
  • 3. Most common imported tropical diseases - Feiszt Zsófia
  • 4. Viral hemorragic fevers - Feiszt Zsófia
  • 5. Tropical bacterial infections (Thyphoid fever, Cholera, Pest, Bartonellosis) - Feiszt Zsófia
  • 6. Tropical bacterial infections (Thyphoid fever, Cholera, Pest, Bartonellosis) - Feiszt Zsófia
  • 7. Leprosy ant other Mycobacterial infections - Feiszt Zsófia
  • 8. Leischmaniasis - Feiszt Zsófia
  • 9. Schistosomiasis - Feiszt Zsófia
  • 10. African and American Trypanosomiasis - Feiszt Zsófia
  • 11. Non-veneral Treponema infections - Feiszt Zsófia
  • 12. HIV/AIDS - Feiszt Zsófia

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

-

Literature developed by the Department

Slides of lectures

Notes

-

Recommended literature

Manson?s Tropical Diseases, 22nd edition

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

A maximum of 15% of absences during the semester will be excused (15–25% absences may apply depending on individual fairness). Absences in excess of this limit will not be accepted for the exam.

Mid-term exams

There is no exam during the semester

Making up for missed classes

Not possible

Exam topics/questions

Preparing of travellers

Most common imported tropical diseases

Viral hemorragic fevers

Tropical bacterial infections (Thyphoid fever, Cholera, Pest, Bartonellosis)

Leprosy ant other Mycobacterial infections

Leischmaniasis

Schistosomiasis

Non-venereal Treponema infections

HIV/AIDS

Non-infectious tropical diseases

Malnutrition

Examiners

  • Feiszt Zsófia

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Feiszt Zsófia
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