Microbes, infectious diseases and the causal relationship that links them
Not only is today ANZAC Day; it’s also the day we note the achievements and continuing challenges of the Rollback Malaria campaign – World Malaria Day.
To mark the occasion, the Lancet has run a special feature edition on malaria.
The μGnome has nailed his colours to the mast in our FACTM pt 1 malaria series. Here is a short summary; highlights of the malaria unit.
The second Charlie’s postgraduate Tropical Medicine sessions takes place next Tuesday (27th April) at 06:50 in the ED seminar room. Notes can be found on this site here.
This is part of the FACTM pt 1 series, and concludes our malaria unit.
Revision of the earlier two modules is also available on this site.
A light breakfast will be provided.
For those who’ve been following the μGnome’s series on all things malarial, the full set of learning modules can now be found on the Priobe Net Plasmodium page, along with an interactive malaria risk map and other malaria resources.
Powerpoint files can be downloaded in PDF for personal and educational use. There are separate PDFs here if all you need is the Plasmodium life cycle or the mosquito recognition chart. A link has been added to the WHO interactive travel health map. This allows you to update the information as changing malaria risk alters the global risk map. If studying for the FACTM pt 1, note the chapters in the recommended list of short textbooks, and a superbly written chapter on malaria in Manson’s Tropical Diseases by Nick White.
Malaria modules 3 and 4
The μGnome has finished preparing Malaria module 3 and Malaria module 4. These cover public health, travel health and expedition medicine aspects of malaria and vector biology. The two mini-lectures are presented here to help those studying for the FACTM pt 1 exam later this year. They complement modules 1 and 2.
More details can be found on the excellent Malaria site run by the WHO.
Settings for which the μGnome needed professional travel health and expedition medicine advice included Brazil and Sri Lanka. Click on the links for more on those expeditions.
Did you ever think how useful it would be to have all your malaria learning material in the same place? I did. After all, it was getting a bit untidy. So they’ve all been moved to the Priobe Net home page. Links will take you from there to all our malaria media. Future items will be linked to there as well.
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