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| MICR0330-4 | Medical microbiology
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| Duration : | 25h Th, 10h Pr, 7h SI |
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| Lecturer : | Marie-Pierre Hayette |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester |
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Course contents :
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| Basics of Medical Microbiology
Control of infectious diseases
Technological tools used in the study of microorganisms in their environment or in the interaction with their host.
Course Description
The course is divided into two parts: the first part designed to address some infectious agents responsible for infectious diseases among those most frequently encountered in human medicine or of particular interest. A second part dealing with technological tools used for diagnostic or research purposes. Indeed, it is important to these students to combine the medical aspect of their studies through the knowledge of infectious diseases but also to address a more technical aspect in order to get an overview over technologies they can use in fundamental or applied research. NB Infectious diseases will be addressed except viral infections that will be covered in the course of medical virology (Prof. N. Jacobs).
Contents
Part I. Diseases will be addressed by anatomical site focusing on the pathogenesis of infection. Be addressed: respiratory tract infections especially pneumonia of bacterial origin and tuberculosis; urinary tract infections, as well as sexually transmitted infections such as infections due to Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and the agent of syphilis; skin infections with emphasis on infections caused by S. aureus infections by dermatophytes and ectoparasites (lice, fleas); infections with arthropod-borne borreliosis (autochtous pathology ) and malaria (tropical disease).
Finally, the main mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics, antifungal and antiparasitic drugs will include: types of mechanisms, mode of acquisition, detection methods.
Part II
This part will be addressed through lectures and discussion in the form of articles with the students:
1. Lectures on applied techniques for the diagnosis of characterisation of the infections: culture, identification of infectious agents, the contribution of mass spectrometry, serological, molecular techniques applied to microbiology and PCR applications, molecular typing and sequencing.
2. Discussion and presentation by the students of scientific paper that will be submitted to the students in advance. They will read, analyse and present the content in groups of 3 or 4 students. Each group will also provide a summary for students of other groups that have not worked on the same item. This will address the side applied research in the field of microbiology, whether clinical or basic research.
Revision
A review session is scheduled at the end of the course. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| At the end of the course students will have developed knowledge in medical microbiology: knowledge of infectious agents, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases addressed.
He will know the necessary tools for the characterization of microorganisms for diagnostic or research.
He will be able to have a more critical reading of scientific articles in the field of microbiology |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Concepts of General Microbiology and Immunology |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The course will be presented in the form of lectures and discussions of scientific papers. Practical sessions are also organized. Tutorials are presented in the form of workshops that illustrate the lectures through demonstration of diagnostic tests, microscopical and macroscopical observations (bacterial and fungal cultures, observation of adult parasites), projection of videos. On the other hand, a video will be made available as a virtual tour of the medical microbiology laboratory. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Medical microbiology-MIMS Collaborateurs-Mosby Europe ed., 4th edition, 2008.
Introduction à la microbiologie, Tortora G.J. et al., 2003, ERPI, Editions du renouveau pédagogique.
Principes de biologie moléculaire en microbiologie- N. Amezane, M. Bogard, J. Lamoril, Elsevier ed. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The assessment will take the form of 30 muliple choice questions and two questions with short answer. On the other hand the practical work are evaluated at the end of sessions and are incorporated into the final score. |
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Prof. Marie-Pierre Hayette
Department of Medical microbiology
Tour de Pathologie (B23)
CHU Sart Tilman - 4000 LIEGE
Tél: 04-366.24.39
Fax: 04-366.24.40
Email: mphayette@ulg.ac.be |
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