Medical Microbiology - GB329
Title: Lékařská mikrobiologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Biological and Medical Sciences (16-16150)
Faculty: Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:combined
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:28/42, C+Ex [HS]
Capacity: unlimited / 30 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: PharmDr. Ondřej Janďourek, Ph.D.
Comes under: 2.ročník 2025/26 LDZ prezenční
Pre-requisite : GB194
Interchangeability : GB197
Is interchangeable with: GB197
WS schedule   
Annotation -
Medical microbiology follows the basic subject Microbiology. This subject expands knowledge about medically important microbes and microbial infections focusing on routine laboratory and clinical diagnosis of infections, clinical forms and pathogenesis of infectious diseases, and their therapeutical management. The goal is to prepare the skilled worker for microbiology laboratory including basic procedures, techniques and evaluation of results.
Last update: Janďourek Ondřej, PharmDr., Ph.D. (23.09.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Credit conditions:

  • 100% attendance in laboratory practice (no absence without leave).
  • Attendance at excursion to ÚKM FNHK - according to actual situation.
  • Worked out protocol from each lecture with average classicification not worse than 2.0 and handed in not later than given date.
  • Succesfull identification of unknown microbiological sample.
  • Successfully passed credit test.

Exam conditions:

  • Gained credit.
  • Successfully passed exam test (25 questions).
  • Successfully passed oral exam.
Last update: Janďourek Ondřej, PharmDr., Ph.D. (23.09.2025)
Literature -

Obligatory:

  • Votava, Miroslav. Lékařská mikrobiologie. 2, Přehled vyšetřovacích metod v lékařské mikrobiologii. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2000, 309 s. ISBN 80-210-2272-8.

  • Votava, Miroslav. Lékařská mikrobiologie obecná. Brno: Neptun, 2001, 247 s. ISBN 80-902896-2-2.

  • Votava, Miroslav. Lékařská mikrobiologie speciální. Brno: Neptun, 2003, 495 s. ISBN 80-902896-6-5.

  • Votava, Miroslav. Kultivační půdy v lékařské mikrobiologii. Brno: Hortus, 2000, 407 s. ISBN 80-238-5058-X.

  • Ryšková, Olga. Praktická cvičení a semináře z lékařské mikrobiologie : pro studující všeobecného a zubního lékařství. Praha: Karolinum, 2010, 125 s. ISBN 978-80-246-1834-0.

  • Scharfen, Josef. Diferenciální diagnostika v klinické mikrobiologii. Praha: RNDr. František Skopec, CSc. - Nucleus HK, 2013, 223 s. ISBN 978-80-87009-32-1.

  • Beneš, Jiří. Infekční lékařství. Praha: Galén, 2009, 651 s. ISBN 978-80-7262-644-1.

  • Votava, Miroslav. Lékařská mikrobiologie - vyšetřovací metody. Brno: Neptun, 2010, 495 s. ISBN 978-80-86850-04-7.

  • Kolářová, Libuše. Obecná a klinická mikrobiologie. Praha: Galén, 2020, 441 s. ISBN 978-80-7492-477-4.

  • Hurych, Jakub, Štícha, Roman. Lékařská mikrobiologie : repetitorium. Praha: Stanislav Juhaňák - Triton, 2021, 624 s. ISBN 978-80-7553-900-7.

Recommended:

  • Kruif, Paul de. Lovci mikrobů. Praha: Orbis - Mladá fronta, 1959, 229 s. ISBN .

  • Garrett, Laurie. Přežijeme? : morové rány dneška : o nemocech nově se objevujících ve světě vychýleném z rovnováhy. Praha: Triton, 2008, 824 s. ISBN 978-80-7387-171-0.

Last update: Janďourek Ondřej, PharmDr., Ph.D. (23.09.2025)
Teaching methods -
  • Lectures, PPT presentations
  • Seminars – discussion on given topic; theory for practical tasks
  • Practical classes – procedures of identification used in microbiological laboratories, basic microbiological techniques
  • Excursion at clinical department ÚKM FNHK (according to current epidemiological situation)
Last update: Janďourek Ondřej, PharmDr., Ph.D. (23.09.2025)
Requirements to the exam -
Knowledge of discipline defined by sylabus of the subject.
Last update: Janďourek Ondřej, PharmDr., Ph.D. (23.09.2025)
Syllabus -
  • General characteristic and focus on medical microbiology, systematics, history, microbiome.
  • Methods of specimen collection, transport of biological material, inoculation on different media, laboratory protocols.
  • Cultivation media, cultivation of bacteria.
  • Laboratory diagnostics of gram-negative bacilli.
  • Laboratory diagnostics of gram-positive cocci.
  • Haemocultivation, controls of sterility.
  • Laboratory diagnostics of fastidious pathogens.
  • Laboratory diagnostics gram-positive bacilli.
  • Laboratory diagnostics of acid-fast bacilli.
  • Laboratory diagnostics of parasitic diseases.
  • Laboratory diagnostics of viral infections.
  • Laboratory diagnostics in mycological laboratory.
  • Making use of indirect laboratory methods in infection diseases diagnostics - serological tests and direct antigen testing.
  • Instrumental methods in bacteriological laboratory – laboratory in 21st century.
Last update: Janďourek Ondřej, PharmDr., Ph.D. (23.09.2025)
Learning resources -