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tropical diseases (complementary course) [ WMED2181 ]

2.0 crédits ECTS 15.0 h

Teacher(s)	Zech Francis ;
Language	French
Place of the course	Bruxelles Woluwe
Aims	This course is for to the future physician who will work in Europe, to be able to identify the most important tropical diseases affecting the travellers or the immigrants. The priority is given to the clinical diagnosis and to the treatment of the life threatening diseases. The student will also become able to recognize some other frequent problems. The course is also an opportunity to exercise the clinical skills in infectious diseases.
Content	The course is oriented to the clinical diagnosis, not the epidemiology nor the identification of the parasites or micro-organisms in the lab. The treatment of malaria, typhoid fever, and rickettsiosis will be discussed in depth. For the other diseases, the student will receive written information Filariasis (lymphatic, Loa-Loa, onchocercosis, streptocerciasis) Schistosomiasis Hydatic kysts Malaria African trypanosomiasis African and asiatic rickettsiosis Tropical viral diseases Typoid fever, plague, and anthrax Cutaneous parasitic diseases Tropical venereal diseases The informations given during the course are completed by written notes
Cycle et année d'étude	> Master [240] in Medecine > Master [120] in Biomedicine
Faculty or entity in charge	> MED