List of the Topics and Consultants for the Diploma Works in
Medical Microbiology:
Faculty of General Medicine 2014/2015 (4th year students) – ready 2017
1. Toxic virulence factors of bacteria
Consultant: Dr. Ghidan Agoston
Characterisation of toxic virulence factors of some important bacteria, their
role in the pathomechanism of infection, their effect on the immune system.
2. The new challenge of XXI. century: Ebola outbreaks: past, present and
future
Consultant: Prof. Adam Eva
Characterisation of the causative agent. Description of the outbreaks.
Possibilities in treatment and prevention.
3. Vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus
Consultant: Dr. Ghidan Agoston
Origin, geno-, as well as phenotypes, spreading, classical and molecular
biologic detection, and control of vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus.
4. The effect of the cell surface properties of Staphylococcus aureus on its
virulence
Consultant: Dr. Agoston Ghidan
Cell surface virulence factors of S. aureus, and their differences in methicillin
susceptible versus resistant strains
5. Exotoxins of Staphylococcus aureus
Consultant: Dr. Zsuzsanna Berek
Classification, structure, (bio)chemical characterisation, mechanism of action
of S. aureus exotoxins. Epidemiology, clinical picture, diagnostics, therapy and
prevention of the associated diseases.
6. Role of HIV co-receptors in the development of AIDS
Consultant: Prof. Károly Nagy
7. Syphilis as AIDS cofactor
Consultant: Prof. Károly Nagy
8. Importance of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa's virulence factors in
infections or/and colonisation
Consultant: Dr. Kristóf Katalin
Alginate coat production and its role in patients with cystic fibrosis or other
chronic respiratory diseases and in colonisations/infections associated with
indwelling medical devices.
9. Microbiological significance of the consecutive problems caused by
plastic materials in the treatment
Consultant: Dr. Kristóf Katalin
Diagnosis of the infection or/and colonisation caused by biofilm productive
microorganisms (coagulase-negative staphylococci, salmonella spp.,
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List of the Topics and Consultants for the Diploma Works in
Medical Microbiology:
Faculty of General Medicine 2014/2015 (4th year students) – ready 2017
pseudomonas spp. and fungi)associated with prosthesis implants and
indwelling medical devices. Treatment, prevention and control.
10.
Role of microorganisms’ interaction in the pathogenesis of infectious
and colonisation
Consultant: Dr. Kristóf Katalin
(Co-infection, secondary disease, polymicrobial infections. Is it true, that some
viruses or bacteria can prepare the way of the infection caused by the other
microbes?)
11. Transactivation by adenoviruses
Consultant: Dr. Ongrádi József
12. Transactivation by human herpesvirus 6
Consultant: Dr. Ongrádi József
13. Untreatable neurological disorders - microbes in the background?
(Alzheimer's and Prakinson's syndrome, Autism)
Consultant: Agoston Ghidan
14. Current epidemiological challenges - cholera, measles, west Nile virus,
legionellosis
Consultant: Dr. Agoston Ghidan
15. New vaccine candidates in clinical trials
Consultant: Agoston Ghidan
16. Addressing gaps in HIV knowledge among commercial sex workers and
IDU's in Iran
Consultant: Prof. Károly Nagy
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