Infectology

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GENERAL INFECTOLOGY:
• Introduction to infectious diseases, clinical and laboratory signs of inflammation.

SPECIAL INFECTOLOGY:
• Streptococcal infections: angina, scarlet fever, erysipelas, impetigo, pneumococcal infections
• Staphylococcal infections: skin infections, pneumonia, sepsis, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, toxic shock syndrome.
• Infections of the central nervous system:
– purulent meningitis: meningococcal, pneumococcal, meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae.
– serous meningitis: TB meningitis, other serous meningitis.
– encephalitis and meningoencephalitis: Tick-borne encephalitis
• Intestinal infections:
– bacterial infections: diarrhoea when travelling, diarrhoea after use of antibiotics, diarrhoea caused by E. coli, salmonellosis: acute enterocolitis, typhoid, paratyphoid, dysentery, campylobacteriosis, food poisoning, yersiniosis, cholera.
– Viral infection: rotavirus diarrhoea, other viral diarrhoea.
• Respiratory infections:
– infections caused by atypical pathogens: chlamydial infection with mycoplasma
pneumonia, with legionella.
– bacterial respiratory infections: whooping cough, diphtheria.
– viral respiratory infections: flu, infection with respiratory syncytial viruses,
infection with adenoviruses.
• Other major infectious diseases: botulism, tetanus, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, listeriosis, tularemia, brucellosis, anthrax, plague, cat disease, scratches, rabies, sepsis and septic shock
• Infection with rickettsia: rickettsias fever with rash, Typhoid group rickettsiosis, Q fever, ehrlichiosis
• Cutaneous rash diseases: measles, rubella, fifth disease, Kawasaki disease, chickenpox, shingles.
• Infections with herpes: herpes simplex virus, cytomegalovirus, infectious mononucleosis
• Mumps
• Poliomyelitis
• Viral hepatitis, haemorrhagic fever, HIV infection
• Infections caused by parasites: toxoplasmosis, malaria, visceral leishmaniasis, giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, amebiasis, toxocariasis.
• Infections with patients with truncated immunity

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