MIKROBIOLOGIJA SA PARAZITOLOGIJOM

Students will acquire basic knowledge about microorganisms that are important in human medicine due to their ability to cause human diseases, about the ways of their pathogenic effect on the human body, about the possibilities of their transmission in outpatient and hospital conditions and measures that can be used to control that transmission. After completing the lesson, the student will: know the difference between the normal flora of the human body and pathogenic microorganisms, know the characteristics of the most common causes of various infections that affect people, be able to properly take different clinical samples from the patient, properly store and transport them to the microbiological laboratory. The student will become familiar with: the mode of action of antibiotics, the mechanisms of bacterial resistance to antibiotics and the key factors that lead to the development of that resistance. The student will have knowledge about the proper implementation of hand hygiene and other measures important for the control of hospital infections and the possibilities of protection against professional exposure to blood-borne infections. They will be able to use this knowledge in their daily work in order to recognize and control infections.