Course Medicine
BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS IN THE TROPICS
English Division, Ist Year
2019/2020

Class 1 (7.01.2020 – Group 1: 7.00-10.45 / Group 2: 10.45-14.30, room 218)

(8.01.2020 – Group 3: 17.30-21.00, room 218)

Introduction

• Practical advice before travelling, with special consideration given to vaccination, depending on the region of stay (obligatory and recommended immunization)
• Evaluation of dangers during travelling, established indications and types of infectious disease prevention as well as other dangers related with travelling; water, food and nutrition  hygiene. Traveller’s first aid kit – talk over.
• Counselling and most common health issues after return from the tropics.

Class 2 (14.01.2020 – Group 1: 7.00-10.45 / Group 2: 10.45-14.30, room 218)

(15.01.2020 – Group 3: 17.30-21.00, room 218)

• Clinical symptoms, diagnostics, treatment and prevention of parasitic tropical diseases, considering a geographic range of the occurrence: Plasmodium sp., Leishamania sp.; Wuchereria bancrofti; Brugia malayi; Brugia timori; Loa loa ; Onchocerca volvulus; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense ; Trypanosoma cruzi ; Schistosoma sp.
• Clinical symptoms, diagnostics, treatment and prevention of bacterial tropical diseases, considering a geographic range of the occurrence: Salmonella typhi; Yersinia pestis ; Vibrio cholera;
• Clinical cases, scientific movies, discussion.

Class 3 (21.01.2020 – Group 1: 7.00-10.45 / Group 2: 10.45-14.30, room 218)

(22.01.2020 – Group 3: 17.30-21.00, room 218)

• Clinical symptoms, diagnostics, treatment and prevention of bacterial tropical diseases, considering a geographic range of the occurrence: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Mycobacterium leprae; Chlamydia trachomatis, Borrelia burgdorferi
• Clinical symptoms, diagnostics, treatment and prevention of viral tropical diseases, considering a geographic range of the occurrence: Ebola Virus, HIV, Marburg Virus;
• Clinical cases, scientific movies, discussion.

Class 4 (28.01.2020 – Group 1: 7.00-10.45 / Group 2: 10.45-14.30, room 218)

(29.01.2020 – Group 3: 13.30-18.00, room 218)

• Clinical symptoms, diagnostics, treatment and prevention of viral tropical diseases, considering a geographic range of the occurrence: Zika Virus, Lassa Virus, Rabies Virus, Yellow Fever Virus, Dengue Virus, Hepatitis Virus A, Hepatitis Virus B, MERS
• Clinical cases, scientific movies, discussion.