Infectious diseases
Infectious diseases of Radka Komitova
Infection Control and Management…
CONTENTS
General part of Infectious diseases Radka Komitova
- Infection, infectious process, infectious disease
- Microorganism, macroorganism and environment
- History and status of infectious patients
- Syndromes in infectious diseases
- Clinical examinations
- Etiological diagnosis of infectious diseases
- Treatment of infectious diseases
- Infection Prevention and Control
Special part of Infectious Diseases Radka Komitova
Principles and Practice of…
- Airborne infections
- Intestinal infections
- Central nervous system infections
- Transmissible infections
- Roof infections
- Infections with multiple mechanisms of transmission
- Unclear temperature conditions
- Infections in special categories
- Tropical viral and bacterial infectious diseases
Applications Infectious diseases Radka Komitova
Description of a number of infectious diseases such as plague, cholera, typhus, tetanus, jaundice and others are found even in antiquity in the writings of Hippocrates, Galen, in The Bible, in Old Indic Lead, in the written works of Chinese medicine. For the first time in 1546 d. Italian physician Girolamo Fracastoro talks about "an infectious disease that is transmitted from a sick person to a healthy person".
With the epoch-making discoveries of Anthony van Leeuwenhoek the foundations of the teaching of the microbes as causes of diseases and the modern one is created microbiology. At the end of 19th century the first ones are also discovered viruses, but the modern one virology start from 30s of the 20th century with the discovery of the major virus families. The middle of the 20th century marked a great development of the immunoprophylaxis of a number of infectious diseases - poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, variola and other. Through 1986 Mr. J. Paterson formulated the basic postulates of the modern infectology.
The teaching of infectious diseases in Bulgaria starts in 1947 d. as a separate discipline with the establishment of the Department of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases at The Faculty of Medicine in Sofia, headed by P. Verbev and head of the section on infectious diseases I. Tanev. Through 1972 In 2008, a department was set up only for infectious diseases headed by I. Kirov, departments were also created in the other medical higher schools - in Plovdiv, Varna, Pleven and Stara Zagora.
