Infectious Diseases Unit

Year
5

Academic year
2018-2019

Code
02026248

Subject Area
Clinical Specialities

Language of Instruction
Portuguese

Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face

Duration
SEMESTRIAL

ECTS Credits
5.5

Type
Compulsory

Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Physiology, imunology, therapeutics and microbiology/parasitology; knowledge of English.

Lectures, practical classes, seminars and theoretical-practical lessons.

Develop a medical record of a patient with an infectious diseases, highlighting the epidemiological data and the differential diagnosis;

Propose a plan for working diagnosis and therapeutic intervention;

Identify the most common infectious syndromes;

Reinforce the importance of the interrelationship between clinical data and the specificity of laboratory data.

Infectious Diseases Relevance.

Emerging / Re-emerging infections.

HIV Infection / AIDS.

Viral hepatitis in HIV co-infection.

Antibiotic therapy (rational use).

Vaccines in adults.

Respiratory tract infections.

Infections among drug addicts.

Infections of the Central Nervous System.

zoonosis.

Infectious diarrhea in adults.

Sexually transmitted infections.

International health - Imported infectious diseases.

Health care associated infections.

Fever of unknown origin.

Animal bites.

Interface of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.

José Gabriel Saraiva Cunha

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

1-Monografia da Unidade Curricular de Doenças Infeciosas, disponível no Nónio.

2-Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine, 19ª Edição, 2015. ISBN: 9780071802154

3-Goldman-Cecil Medicine, 25ª Edição, 2015. ISBN: 9781455750177

4-Murray P, Rosenthal KS, Pfaller MA: Medical Microbiology, edition 8, New York, 2016, Elsevier.

5-Goering, Dockrell, Zuckerman, Roitt, Chiodini: Mims' Medical Microbiology, edition 5, New York, 2014, Elsevier.