OS - Travel medicine and tropical medicine - DVA1032

• Title: OS - Travel medicine and tropical medicine
• Guaranteed by: Department of Infectious Diseases (13-421)
• Faculty: Second Faculty of Medicine
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• Points: 3
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/20, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: 5
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: RNDr. MUDr. František Stejskal, Ph.D.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Jana Čechová (08.09.2019)

The active participation in at least 80% of teaching days and written test

Literature

English

Last update: Mgr. Jana Čechová (08.09.2019)

Literature: Beaching N.: Tropical Medicine: Lecture Notes, 2014, Wiley Blackwell, 7th ed.

Brent A., Davidson R., Seale A.: Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicin, 2014, Oxford Medical Handbooks, 4th ed.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Jana Čechová (08.09.2019)

Approximate range of issues:

1. Infections caused by tropical tissue helminthes (schistosomiasis, filariasis)

2. Leishmaniasis

3. Intestinal helminthes

4. African and american trypanosomiasis

5. Highly virulent infections: Haemorrhagic fevers, MERS-CoV, anthrax

6. Tropical STDs including HAV/AIDS

7. Viral hepatitis and tropical liver infections

8. Malaria

9. Dengue fever and other tropical arboviroses

10. Differential diagnosis of fever after returning from the tropics

11. Traveller´s diarrhea

12. Typhoid and paratyphoid fever

13. Cholera and other bacterial intestinal infections

14. Intestinal and extraintestinal amebiasis

15. International travel and health risk, surveillance of tropical infections

16. Travellers‘ vaccinations

17. Travelling of children, pregnant women, people with chronic diseases and elderly people

18. Yellow fever

19. Japanese encephalitis

20. Plaque, TB, leprosis, rickettsial infections

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Jana Čechová (10.09.2020)

Optional subject for 5th year

Term: 23.11. - 27.11.2020

Beginning: 14,00 p.m.

Place: Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Na Bulovce, Budínova 2, Prague 8

Number of students: at least 5, maximum 20

Prerequisite: Internal Medicine, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Epidemiology

Practice: demonstration of patients with imported diseases or travel history (if they are just hospitalized)

Teachers:

as. MUDr. František Stejskal, Ph.D., Department of Infectious Diseases, 2nd Medical Faculty

as. MUDr. Milan Trojánek, Ph.D. ,Department of Infectious Diseases, 2nd Medical Faculty

as. MUDr. Helena Ambrožová, Ph.D., Department of Infectious Diseases, 2nd Medical Faculty

Lectures and seminars:

• Introduction to travel medicine, international travel and health risks, infectious and non-infectious health problems, travellers‘ vaccinations. (Dr. Trojánek)

• Traveller‘s diarrhoea: etiology, prevention and management. ( Dr. Trojánek)

• Fever after return from the tropics: etiology, differential diagnosis, clinical management. (Dr. Stejskal)

• Arboviral infections (dengue, chikungunya, Zika), viral hemorhagic fevers (yellow fever, Ebola, Lassa), other important viral infections (MERS-CoV, poliomyelitis, rabies, measles). (Dr. Trojánek)

• The most important parasitic infections in tropical and subtropical regions. Malaria (diagnostics, treatment, prophylaxis). Other tropical parasitic infections. (Dr. Stejskal)

• Tropical bacterial infections: enteric fever, relapsing fever, plague, anthrax, brucellosis, melioidosis. Rickettsial infections. ( Dr. Stejskal)

• Differential diagnostics of tropical skin lessions.

• Differential diagnostics of tropical lung and liver diseases.

Literature: Beaching N.: Tropical Medicine: Lecture Notes, 2014, Wiley Blackwell, 7th ed.

Brent A., Davidson R., Seale A.: Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicin, 2014, Oxford Medical Handbooks, 4th ed.