Infections, infectious diseases and tropical medicine

25 hours

Objectives:

At the end of this course the student should be able to:

1. To take proper history and to do physical examination for infectious

diseases.
2. To order the most relevant investigations to the patients with infectious
diseases and tropical diseases.
3. To know the management plan for patients with infectious diseases and
tropical diseases.
4. To know how to deal with these diseases complications

N Lecture Hour
0
1 Infections and infectious diseases: Principles and basic 1
mechanisms
2 Approach to the patient with a suspected infection 1
3 Immunization against infectious diseases 1
4 Acute lower respiratory infections 1
5 HIV/AIDS 1
6 Tuberculosis 1
7 Malaria 1
8 Measles, Whooping cough and Tetanus 1
9 Meningitis 1
10 Leishmaniasis and leishmania spp 1
11 Bacterial Gastroenteritis Escherichia coli 0157 and Salmonella 1
enteritidis.
Campylobacter jejuni
12 Leptospirosis: Leptospira interrogans 1
13 Brucellosis: Brucella abortus, Brucella melitensis 1
14 Toxoplasmosis: Toxoplasma gondii 1
15 Hydatid disease: Echinococcus granulosus 1
16 Lymphatic filariasis: Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi 1
17 Cholera, Dysentery (amoebic or bacillary) and Food poisoning 1
18 Leprosy 1
19 General investigations for a patient with suspected infection 1
20 Pyrexia of unknown origin 1
21 Antibacterial chemotherapy: Principles of use 1
22 Systemic fungal infections and antifungal drugs: Candidiasis 1
23 Schistosoma species and Paragonimiasis 1
24 Tapeworms: Taenia saginata,Taenia solium, Diphyllobothrium 1
latum and Hymenolepis nana
25 Intestinal human nematodes Enterobius vermicularis, Ascaris 1
lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Ancylostoma duodenale and
Strongyloides stercoralis