Content
- Lectures: 35 hours
- Exercises 10 hours
- Independent work: 45 hours
Subject carrier
Description
1. INTRODUCTION TO MICROBIOLOGY • History, development and fields of
microbiology, major discoveries 2. TYPES, DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF
MICRO-ORGANISMS 3. VIRUSES • Size, shape, structure, classification, genetics,
reproduction, pathogenesis, spread and detection of viral infections 4. BACTERIA
• Size, shape, cell structure, classification, genetics, reproduction,
pathogenesis, spread and detection of bacterial infections, resistance,
opportunistic bacteria 5. FUNGI • Characteristics, cell structure, pathogenesis,
spread and detection of fungal infections, opportunistic fungi 6. MEDICINALLY
IMPORTANT PROTOZOA AND PARASITES • Characteristics and diseases, treatment,
spread and prevention of infections 7. PRIONS 8. BACTERIA AND THE HOST • Normal
and transient microbial flora, pathogenesis and spread of infections, virulence,
exo- and endotoxins, biofilm • Local and systemic infection, diagnostics,
vectors and zoonoses, reservoirs of infections 9. ANTIBIOTICS AND
CHEMOTHERAPEUTICS 10. MICROORGANISMS AND INFECTIONS IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS
• Occurrence of healthcare infections and risk factors, major infectious agents
and modes of transmission, general and specific infection control measures
11. PATHOGENIC BACTERIA AND INFECTIONS • Staphylococci, streptococci,
pneumococci, neisseria, moraxela, haemophilus, bordetella, legionella,
enterobacteria, Escherichia coli, salmonella, shigella, yersinia, vibrio,
campylobacter, clostridium, genus bacillus, non-sporegenic anaerobes ,
gram-positive bacillus,, mycobacteria, brucella, treponema, borelia, leptospira,
rickettsia, ehrlichia, chlamydia, mycoplasma 12. PATHOGENIC VIRUSES AND
INFECTIONS • Transmission, pathogenesis, diagnostics, prevention 13. RNA and DNA
viruses (enteroviruses, myxoviruses, rhinoviruses, adenoviruses, caliciviruses,
herpesviruses, poxviruses, polioviruses, rhabdoviruses, hepatitis viruses,
papillomaviruses, coronaviruses, flaviviruses, bunyaviruses, filoviruses,
retroviruses, orto- and paramixo- viruses 14. IMMUNE SYSTEM • Microorganisms and
immune response, organs and cells of the immune system, non-specific and
specific immunity, primary and secondary immune response, inflammatory response,
phagocytosis, complement system, interferons, immune memory, antibodies,
hypersensitivity reactions, immunization and vaccines
