LF:VLLM0421p Medical Microbiology I - lectu - Course Information
VLLM0421p Medical Microbiology I - lecture
Faculty of Medicinespring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- MUDr. Lenka Černohorská, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Monika Dvořáková Heroldová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Veronika Holá, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. MUDr. Filip Růžička, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Vladana Woznicová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ing. Veronika Korecká (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Lukáš Vacek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Ondřej Zahradníček (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. MUDr. Filip Růžička, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology – Institutions shared with St. Anne's Faculty Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: MUDr. Ondřej Zahradníček
Supplier department: Department of Microbiology – Institutions shared with St. Anne's Faculty Hospital – Faculty of Medicine - Prerequisites
- VSBI0222p Biology II-lect. || VLBI0222p Biology II-lect. && VLBF011p Biophysics-lect.
Students are supposed to have considerable knowledge of anathomy, histology, biology, biochemistry and physiology. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- General Medicine (eng.) (programme LF, M-VL)
- General Medicine (programme LF, M-VL) (2)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to teach students to define the basic concepts of medical diagnostic virology, mycology and parasitology
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course student should be able to:
define microbial morphology and physiology, basics of microbial genetics
describe microbial biofilm and its properties
define pathogenicity and virulence, factors of pathogenicity and virulence, pathogenesis and course of infection
discuss antimicrobial immunity, active and passive immunisation
describe tenacity of microorganisms, basic principles and practical use of decontamination methods - Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to microbiology
- 2. Bacterial cell and growth
- 3. Microbes and environment
- 4. Pathogenicity and virulence
- 5. Microbial biofilm
- 6. Microbes and the host
- 7. Microbes and host immunity
- 8. Antibiotics I.
- 9. Antibiotics II.
- 10. Antibiotics III.
- 11. Other antimicrobials
- 12. Principles of antimicrobial treatment
- 13. Notes to special microbiology I.
- 14. Notes to special microbiology II.
- Literature
- required literature
- VOTAVA, Miroslav. Lékařská mikrobiologie obecná. (General Medical Microbiology.). 1st ed. Brno: Neptun, 2001, 247 pp. ISBN 80-902896-2-2. info
- VOTAVA, Miroslav. Lékařská mikrobiologie speciální (Medical microbiology special). 1st ed. Brno: NEPTUN, Březová 18, 637 00 Brno, 2003, 495 pp. ISBN 80-902896-6-5. info
- recommended literature
- VOTAVA, Miroslav, Filip RŮŽIČKA, Vladana WOZNICOVÁ, Lenka ČERNOHORSKÁ, Milada DVOŘÁČKOVÁ, Monika DVOŘÁKOVÁ HEROLDOVÁ, Veronika HOLÁ and Ondřej ZAHRADNÍČEK. Lékařská mikrobiologie: Vyšetřovací metody (Medical Microbiology: Laboratory Procedures). 1st ed. Brno: Neptun, 2010, 495 pp. ISBN 978-80-86850-04-7. info
- GREENWOOD, David. Lékařská mikrobiologie : přehled infekčních onemocnění : patogeneze, imunita, laboratorní diagnostika a epidemiologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada Publishing, 1999, 686 s. ISBN 80-7169-365-0. info
- RULÍK, Martin, Veronika HOLÁ, Filip RŮŽIČKA, Miroslav VOTAVA, Dana BAUDIŠOVÁ, Jiří GALLO, Simona KAPRÁLOVÁ, Kateřina KOHUŠOVÁ, Dagmar KOUKALOVÁ, Václav KŮDELA, Jiří MIKEŠ, Radko NOVOTNÝ, Martina SIGLOVÁ, Věra TORŠOVÁ and Jiří ZIMÁK. Mikrobiální biofilmy (Microbial Biofilms). 1. vydání. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2011, 448 pp. Monografie. ISBN 978-80-244-2747-8. info
- GOERING, Richard V., Hazel M. DOCKRELL, Mark A. ZUCKERMAN, Ivan M. ROITT and Peter L. CHIODINI. Mimsova lékařská mikrobiologie. Translated by Jaroslav Julák - Jan Bobek - Renáta Čermáková - Karel Holada. 5. vydání. Praha: Stanislav Juhaňák - Triton, 2016, xiv, 568. ISBN 9788073879280. info
- Tituly 1, 2, přednášky v IS MU a veškeré materiály z praktik jsou základní studijní materiály ke zkoušce, ostatní jsou doplňkové.
- Teaching methods
- lecture
- Assessment methods
- This is the first part of lectures, no specific end. After the second block of lectures (VLLM0522p) there is the practical and theoretical examination.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 15.
- Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/med/spring2025/VLLM0421p