Content (Syllabus outline)
• Safety in the microbiology laboratory. Preparing health-care institutions and laboratories in suspected introduction of highly-pathogenic microorganisms
• Hospital hygiene. Hygiene; man; personal hygiene; environmental hygiene; pathogenic microorganisms and environment. Risk factors, types of hospital infections, transmission of microorganisms. Multi-resistant bacteria in hospitals, transmission. Antimicrobial resistance surveillance. Hospital infection control. Legislation. The role of microbiology laboratory in diagnostics and prevention of hospital infections. The importance of outbreak investigation in the hospital and other environments. Sampling and microbiological procedures in the case of hospital infections and in epidemics. Prevention of contaminations in the laboratory. Significance of identification and typing microorganisms for epidemiological investigation.
• Food, sampling, examination, legislation, prevention of contaminations in the laboratory.
European directives, accreditation and standards in microbiology laboratories. Microbes that are transmitted by food and cause infections in people.
• Water and environment. Drinking water- supply, purification and disinfection. Water sampling, prevention of contaminations, microbiological examination, interpretation, legislation. Surface, swimming, waste waters.
• Surveillance, EU directives and country legislation
• Principles of disinsection and deratization.
Prerequisites
Completed exams of the first level.