2024
Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology
Name: Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology
Code: CMS13749I
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Ciências Farmacêuticas
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
This curricular unit aims to promote in-depth knowledge on Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology that allows the students to identify and characterize the most relevant patogenical agents with great importance to public health.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
This curricular unit aims at promoting in-depth knowledge of bacterial and fungal agents with great importance to public health. Students are intended to acquire, through an integrated analysis of its development from incubation to diagnosis, the skills to identify and characterize such pathological agents. For this goal, students will be guided and encouraged to develop the best diagnosis laboratory practices and skills to cultivate microorganisms from clinical samples, to characterize and to identify these organisms, as well as to interpret their susceptibility profiles against antimicrobial agents.
Contents
Theoretical classes:
Etiology, epidemiology, clinical manifestations and laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases. Microorganism-host interaction.
Respiratory, digestive and uro-genital infections: most frequent microorganisms.
Emerging technologies for the diagnosis of bacterial infectious diseases. Prevention and control of nosocomial infection.
Fungal taxonomy and characterization of pathogenic fungi. Superficial and invasive fungal infections. Pathogenicity; epidemiology and evolution of the mycosis spectrum.
Mechanisms of resistance to antifungal drugs.
Laboratory diagnosis of fungal infections: conventional, immunological and molecular.
Practical classes
Analysis of clinical samples in order to isolate and identify infectious bacteria/ fungi agents.
Evaluation of the susceptibility of isolated microorganisms to the antimicrobial agents.
Analysis and discussion of clinical cases.
Etiology, epidemiology, clinical manifestations and laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases. Microorganism-host interaction.
Respiratory, digestive and uro-genital infections: most frequent microorganisms.
Emerging technologies for the diagnosis of bacterial infectious diseases. Prevention and control of nosocomial infection.
Fungal taxonomy and characterization of pathogenic fungi. Superficial and invasive fungal infections. Pathogenicity; epidemiology and evolution of the mycosis spectrum.
Mechanisms of resistance to antifungal drugs.
Laboratory diagnosis of fungal infections: conventional, immunological and molecular.
Practical classes
Analysis of clinical samples in order to isolate and identify infectious bacteria/ fungi agents.
Evaluation of the susceptibility of isolated microorganisms to the antimicrobial agents.
Analysis and discussion of clinical cases.
Teaching Methods
The teaching- learning process will be based on the individual work of the students and supported by recommended bibliography. Theoretical classes with exposure of the theoretical contents, are articulated with laboratory practical classes, by the execution of laboratorial protocols, interpretation of results, and discussion of clinical cases in the scope of the Unit
The evaluation system considers the achievement obtained in the different components of the unit. The theoretical component (50%) can be assessed by continuous evaluation, with 2 written tests or by a final exam. The laboratory practical component (35%) will be continuously evaluated based on attendance, laboratory performance and discussion of the works and complemented with the presentation of a scientific paper on a relevant topic in the UC area (15%).
The evaluation system considers the achievement obtained in the different components of the unit. The theoretical component (50%) can be assessed by continuous evaluation, with 2 written tests or by a final exam. The laboratory practical component (35%) will be continuously evaluated based on attendance, laboratory performance and discussion of the works and complemented with the presentation of a scientific paper on a relevant topic in the UC area (15%).
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