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Respiratory Infections affect both children and adults and have become one of the leading causes of death in the field of infections. The most frequent are pneumonia and tuberculosis. 
The development and spread of bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of the main problems of infection control in most countries. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) cites antibiotic resistance as a major threat to global health, food security and development.

Therefore, pharmacy professionals, regardless of where they work, can see in this Postgraduate certificate the opportunity to take a teaching program that brings together the most advanced and in-depth knowledge of the most important health problems in the field of infectious diseases and microbiology, where a group of scientific professors with extensive international experience provide the most complete and up-to-date information on prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care of individual patients and population groups, suffering from the most prevalent and deadly infectious diseases.

In this case, the program focuses on the most lethal respiratory infections, based on bacterial pneumonias, tuberculosis, Loeffer's syndrome and eosinophilic syndromes. In addition, the most effective antimicrobials in the field of Respiratory Infections.  

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This Postgraduate certificate endorses the latest advances in infectious diseases with an academic teaching program that positions it as an educational product of the highest scientific quality at international level Additionally, this program provides training and professional development in different areas:

• Clinical symptoms to be able to address the infectious health-disease process in a particular person through the study of the most prevalent and deadly infectious diseases, and, in Epidemiology, to study the behaviour of the same phenomenon in a population
• Indication, performance and interpretation of the main state-of-the-art diagnostic tests to complement clinical skills in the diagnostic process. Emphasizing the most up-to-date microbiological tests used to rapidly diagnose germs and study antimicrobial 
• The complex and determining pathophysiological relationships between the immune response and infectious agents
• Germs related to neoplasms and chronic non-communicable diseases
• Development and production of vaccines for the control of morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases
• The important field of antimicrobial therapeutics, providing the best available information on the development and production of new antibiotics

Don't miss the opportunity to update your knowledge in Respiratory Infections and earn a qualification from the world's leading online university"

Its teaching staff is made up of prestigious and renowned professionals with a long career in health care, teaching and research, who have work in many countries on several continents, developing professional and teaching experience that they deliver in an extraordinary way in this Postgraduate certificate.

The methodological design of this Postgraduate certificate, developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, integrates the latest advances in educational technology for the creation of numerous Educational multimedia tools that allow the professional, based primarily Problem the problem-based learning method, to address real problems in their daily clinical practice, which will allow them to advance by acquiring knowledge and developing skills that will impact their future professional work.

It should be noted in this Postgraduate certificate  that each of the contents generated, as well as the videos, self-evaluations, clinical cases and exams, have been thoroughly reviewed, updated, and integrated by the teachers and the team of experts that make up the working group, to facilitate the learning process with a step-by-step approach in order to achieve the teaching program objectives. 

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Infections are a serious health problem, so it is imperative that pharmacists continue to be trained to advance in this field"

The teaching program has been created to provide healthcare professionals with the necessary tools for their daily practice in the treatment of Respiratory Infections. Therefore, the content of this Postgraduate certificate is composed of the most up-to-date syllabus on the market, which has been developed by leading experts in the field at international level, with the aim of making specialists more accurate in the diagnosis and treatment of this type of infections.

The content of the program is the most up-to-date and scientifically rigorous on the market, so that specialists can be more precise in their diagnoses”

Module 1. Epidemiology and Microbiology of Infectious Diseases 

1.1. Epidemiological, Economic, Social and Political Conditions in Continents Which Favor the Development of Infectious Diseases

1.1.1. Africa: 
1.1.2. America: 
1.1.3. Europe and Asia 

1.2. New and Emerging Diseases By Continent 

1.2.1. Morbidity and Mortality From Infectious Diseases in Africa 
1.2.2. Morbidity and Mortality From Infectious Diseases in the Americas 
1.2.3. Infectious Disease Morbidity and Mortality in Asia 
1.2.4. Morbidity and Mortality From Infectious Diseases in Europe 

1.3. The Taxonomy Of Infectious Agents 

1.3.1. Viruses 
1.3.2. Bacteria 
1.3.3. Fungus 
1.3.4 Parasites 

1.4. Disease-producing Properties of Micro-organisms: 

1.4.1. Mechanisms of Pathogenicity 
1.4.2. Mechanisms of Adhesion and Multiplication 
1.4.3. Mechanisms Enabling the Acquisition of Nutrients From The Host 
1.4.4. Mechanisms Inhibiting The Phagocytic Process 
1.4.5. Mechanisms For Evading The Immune Response 

1.5. Microscopy and Staining 

1.5.1. Microscopes and Types of Microscopes 
1.5.2. Composite Stains 
1.5.3. Acid-resistant Micro-organism Staining 
1.5.4. Staining to Demonstrate Cellular Structures 

1.6. Cultures and Growth of Micro-organisms 

1.6.1. General Culture Mediums 
1.6.2. Specific Culture Methods 

1.7. Effect of Chemical and Physical Agents on Micro-organisms 

1.7.1. Sterilisation and Disinfection 
1.7.2. Disinfectants and Antiseptics Used in Practice  

1.8. Molecular Biology and its Importance for the Infectologist

1.8.1. Bacterial Genetics
1.8.2. Polymerase Chain Reaction Tests 

1.9. Indication and Interpretation of Microbiological Studies 

1.9.1. Indication of Microbiological Studies 
1.9.2. Interpretation of Microbiological Studies 

Module 2: The Most Lethal Respiratory Infections

2.1. Immunology and Defence Mechanisms of the Respiratory System 

2.1.1. Immunology
2.1.2. Defense Mechanisms of the Respiratory System 

2.2. Influenza and Other Lethal Viral Infections 

2.2.1. Influenza Epidemics 
2.2.2. H1N1 Influenza 
2.2.3. Vaccine Against Influenza and the Prevention of Mortality 

2.3. Bacterial Pneumonia: The Captain of the Armies of Death 

2.3.1. Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) 
2.3.2. Intrahospital Pneumonia 
2.3.3. Pneumonia Associated With Healthcare 

2.4. Tuberculosis

2.4.1. Epidemiology 
2.4.2. Pathobiology
2.4.3. Classification 
2.4.4. Clinical Picture 
2.4.5. Diagnosis 
2.4.6. Treatment 

2.5. Loeffler's Syndrome and Eosinophilic Syndromes

2.5.1. Pulmonary Phase of Parasites 
2.5.2. Clinical and Radiological Manifestations
2.5.3. Other Eosinophilic Pneumonias

2.6. Antimicrobials and the Respiratory System 

2.6.1. Antimicrobials Effective in the Respiratory System
2.6.2. The Immunomodulatory Role of Macrolides in Pneumonia

The content of this course focuses on the most common infections that most affect tourists during their international travels"