Epidemiology - lecture

Week 2 - Vaccination and immunization. Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis.


The main messages and required knowledge from this lesson


  1. basic information about vaccination,
  2. basic epidemiological characteristics of blood-borne infections generally - types of pathogens, sources, routes of transmission, susceptible persons,
  3. main epidemiological characteristic of HIV/AIDS (pathogen and its infectivity, sources, routes of transmission, susceptible persons, risk population, risk for healthcare workers, occurrence, prevention),
  4. main epidemiological characteristic of hepatitis A, B, C, D, E (pathogens and its infectivity, sources, routes of transmission, susceptible persons, risk population, risk for healthcare workers, occurrence, prevention) .

 PRESENTATION FROM THE LESSON

This lecture is dedicated to the topic of Vaccination and immunization (the presentation is below) because it is a very important and current topic and a discussion is expected. For the study of other topics (epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis ) is recommended the study literature listed in IS  (e.g. HUSA, Petr, Lenka KRBKOVÁ, Kateřina HAVLÍČKOVÁ, Alena HOLČÍKOVÁ, Lukáš HOMOLA, Peter MIKOLÁŠEK, Pavel POLÁK, Mária PORUBČANOVÁ a Svatava SNOPKOVÁ. Infectious diseases for foreign students. p. 105-115) and the website of the CDC (link below). 

ADDITIONAL STUDY MATERIALS