Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
The Role of Diagnostics in the Antimicrobial Resistance Response
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
This online course explored how diagnostics can be used in the antimicrobial resistance response.
6 weeks, 4 hours per week
Rosanna Peeling
Professor
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Reflect on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and how it is caused
- Describe the top causes of AMR (linked to WHO and CDC priority list of pathogens) such as Gram negatives bacterial pathogens causing urinary tract infections (UTI) and healthcare associated infections (HAIs), sepsis and gonorrhoea
- Explain the role of diagnostics in reducing the threat of AMR and in more targeted use of antibiotics use for above conditions
- Reflect on the role everyone has to play in the fight against AMR both for now and the future.
Syllabus
The MOOC is organised in six weekly modules, according to the following topics:
- Week 1: Introduction to the role of diagnostics in the response to AMR
- Week 2: Common clinical syndromes
- Week 3: Healthcare associated infections
- Week 4: Enteric infections and the One Health approach
- Week 5: Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae
- Week 6: The future is in our hands
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Issued on 22nd November 2019
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