PřF:B8010 Zoonoses - Course Information

B8010 Zoonoses

Faculty of Science
Autumn 1999

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Hubálek, DrSc. (lecturer)

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Prerequisites

Exams: General microbiology, General virology, System and phylogenesis of invertebrates, System and phylogeny of vertebrates.

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

Syllabus

Types of human infections according to the source: anthroponoses, zoonoses and sapronoses. Epidemic process. Natural focality of diseases. Emerging infections. Epidemiological surveillance, prevention of microbial zoonoses and sapronoses. Haematophagous arthropods (ixodid ticks, insects) as vectors of microbial diseases. Vertebrates as hosts of microbial zoonoses and sapronoses. A systematic survey of microbial zoonoses and sapronoses. Distribution and ecology of their etiologic agents: viruses, rickettsiae, other bacteria, microfungi, protozoa (the latter only briefly).

Literature

Lékařská speciální mikrobiologie a parazitologie. Edited by Marek Bednář - Andrej Souček - Jiří Vávra. Praha: Triton, 1994, 226 s. ISBN 80-901521-4-7. info
Rosický B., Daniel M. a kol.: Lékařská entomologie a životní prostředí. Praha 1989.

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Přednáška 1x týdně, ústní zkouška.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001.