- basic information about vaccination,
- basic epidemiological characteristics of blood-borne infections generally - types of pathogens, sources, routes of transmission, susceptible persons,
- main epidemiological characteristic of HIV/AIDS (pathogen and its infectivity, sources, routes of transmission, susceptible persons, risk population, risk for healthcare workers, occurrence, prevention),
- 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) .
Epidemiology - lecture
Week 2 - Vaccination and immunization. Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis.
The main messages and required knowledge from this lesson
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).