Clinical Micology

Recommended Prerequisites

Biochemistry, Physiopathology, Immunology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Microbiology and Parasitology.

Teaching Methods

 The teaching of the curricular unit includes lectures and laboratory classes. The lectures are often not required and are based on the classical model of knowledge transmission, electronic presentations supported with illustrative of the syllabus. The laboratory classes are compulsory and accompanies the content taught in the lectures. Classes focus on the application of appropriate methodologies to mycological diagnosis of different organic products, presentation of results and discussion.

Learning Outcomes

1. To provide knowledge in the main aspects of clinical mycology:
a) Isolation and identification of fungal pathogens;
b) Fungal taxonomy;
c) Superficial and invasive fungal infections;
d) Fungal pathogenesis;
e) Epidemiology and changing spectrum of mycoses;
f) Antifungal chemotherapy;
g) Mechanisms of resistance to antifungal drugs;
h) Methods for the laboratory diagnosis of fungal infections: conventional, immunological and molecular.
2. To give students the skills to develop best laboratory practice within a diagnostic medical mycology laboratory.
3. Contribute to the students’ ability to understand the published research results in a way that they can apply such knowledge to the practice of clinical mycology.

Work Placement(s)

No

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria do Céu Rodrigues de Sousa

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

• Deacon, J.W., Modern Myccology, 3rd Edition. Blakwell Science, Oxford, 2000.
• Kwong-Chung, K. J., Bennett, J. E., Medical Mycology. Lea &Febiger, Philadelphia, 1992.
• Esteves, J. A., Cabrita, J. D., Nobre, G. N., Micologia Médica, 2ª Edição. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 1990.
• Webster, J. and Weber, R. W. S., Introduction to Fungi, 3rd Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Richardson, M. D. & Warnock, D., Fungal infection. Diagnosis and Management, 3rd Edition. Blakwell Publishing, Oxford, 2003.
• Murray, P. R., Baron, E. J., Jorgensen, J. H., Pfaller, M. A., Yolken, R. H., Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 8th Edition. ASM Press, Washington, D.C, 2003.
• Patterson, T., Fungal Infections, an Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics, 1st Edition. Elsevier B.V, 2006.
• Ferreira, W. F. C. e Sousa, J. C. F.,In Microbiologia, Volume 2, 291-343.Lidel Ed., Lisboa, 1998.