Course information

Course topics: Seminars: 1) Characteristics of clinical microbiology departments and their organization at the national level 2) Material and technical equipment and quality control in microbiological diagnostics 3) Legislation of work in microbiological laboratory and rules of aseptic work 4) Principles of collection, processing and storage of material for microbiological diagnostics 5) Direct evidence by microscopic diagnostics 6) Culturing of microorganisms and preparation of culture media 7) Biochemical identification methods 8) Sensitivity of microorganisms to antimicrobial agents and demonstration of resistance mechanisms 9) Monitoring antibiotic resistance 10) Evidence of bacterial antigens and toxins 11) Nucleic acid analysis and molecular genetic methods in microbiology 12) Indirect methods of investigation: precipitation, agglutination, carrier agglutination, hemagglutination, KFT, IMF, ELISA, RIA Practise: 1) Collection, storage and transport of biological material 2) Direct evidence and principles of methods 3) Microscopic evidence and culture of bacteria (preparation of basic, selective, diagnostic, enriched culture media) 4) Biochemical identification tests 5) Sensitivity of bacteria to antimicrobial agents (quantitative, qualitative methods) 6) Molecular methods for bacterial identification 7) Serological methods and indirect evidence of infectious agent 8) Precipitation and agglutination 9) Complement fixation and neutralization reactions 10) Laboratory methods in virology 11) Laboratory methods in mycology 12) Laboratory methods in parasitology

Supervisors and educators:
RNDr. Lucia Jakubcová, PhD. - Zabezpečuje, Zodpovedný za elearning, Skúšajúci, Cvičiaci, Vedúci semináru
doc. PhDr. Silvia Puteková, PhD. - Kogarant
RNDr. Karolína Tomčíková, PhD. - Schvaľujúci zápis
doc. RNDr. Martina Horváthová, PhD. - Kogarant
doc. Ing. Stanislava Blažíčková, PhD. - Zabezpečuje, Hlavný garant
PhDr. Michal Rafajdus, PhD. - Kogarant

Code: LMbEE52

Period: ZS

Credits: 4