Course description

The course will cover in detail one of the biggest public, animal health and food safety problems of our time, antimicrobial resistance. After learning the basics, students will be able to understand why antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria have become widespread and why their numbers are increasing. This will be combined with an understanding of the scale and rate of use of antibacterial agents over the past decades. In addition, main multiresistant bacterial strains in public and animal health and food safety (ESBL-producing E. coli, MRSA, MRSP, VRSA, VRE, MACI) will be explained. The general guidelines for the use of antibiotics, i.e. pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic aspects, the importance of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic analysis and the human health relevance of the substances will be presented. In the other topics of the course, the rules and conditions for prudent antibiotic use against the most important bacterial diseases are discussed by animal species. Ultimately, students should be able to determine the most effective and safest antibacterial therapies from a human health perspective, which are important not only to ensure clinical improvement in animals affected with bacterial disease, but also to minimise the chance of the development of bacterial strains resistant to antibacterial agents during therapy.

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Lectures theme

 – Lecture Schedule –

“PRUDENT USE OF ANTIMICROBIAL DRUGS”

2025/2026. I. semester

 

Time of lectures: Thursday 10¹⁵-12⁰⁰          Magyary-Kossa Lecture Hall

 

Week 1 11 Sept.	General guidelines of prudent antimicrobial use, PK/PD analysis. Human importance of antibiotics. Antibiotic alternatives in veterinary medicine. dr. Ákos Jerzsele
Week 2 18 Sept	Usage of antibiotics in ruminants, Usage of antibiotics in swine I. dr. Patrik Mag
Week 3 25 Sept	Usage of antibiotics in swine II., Practical aspects of antimicrobial susceptibility testing dr. Patrik Mag
Week 4 2 Oct	Legislations related to the authorization and use of antimicrobials dr. Melinda Nemes-Terényi Usage of antibiotics in companion animals I. dr. Zita Karancsi
Week 5 9 Oct	Usage of antibiotics in companion animals II. dr. Zita Karancsi, dr. Mercédesz Veres
Week 6 16 Oct	Good practices to reduce the need for antimicrobial use on farms dr. László Kovács
Week 7 23 Oct	Usage of antibiotics in poultry (recording) dr. Ádám Kerek

 

Budapest, 01.09.2025.

Dr. Ákos Jerzsele

Head of Department

Evaluation description

“PRUDENT USE OF ANTIMICROBIAL DRUGS”

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Fall semester, academic year 2025/2026

The requirements of the subject “PRUDENT USE OF ANTIMICROBIAL DRUGS” are as follows:

It is a one-semester subject. Lectures are presented every week (in 2 hours) for 7 weeks.

 

Completion of the semester requires:

– Regular visiting of the lectures

– Having professor’s signature in black book.

 

Examination:

The examination is a written test, which starts with an entrance test. The entrance test is only accepted with no more than 1 mistake in it, otherwise the exam cannot be continued and ends with an unsatisfactory mark. The black book should be given to the examiner teacher in the beginning of the test.

 

Topics of the examination are lecture handouts and other files available on the home page.

Preconditions for signing up to the test are:

– completion of the semester (see above)

– successful examination on Veterinary Pharmacology (both I and II), and Veterinary Toxicology

Exam dates: 6 different dates will be provided during the examination period. These will be announced before the exam period. Results will be available in Neptun in 3 working days after the exam.

Postponing of examination is allowed only once. More postponing is considered as repeated examination. Each student is allowed to have maximum three examinations per semester.

If a student cannot attend the exam due to sickness, they must notify the Department on the day of the exam at latest, and they must provide a medical certificate to justify their medical condition within 5 working days.

 

According to the score of test students will be evaluated by marks as follows:

excellent (5) – >90%

good (4) – >80%

medium (3) – >70%

satisfactory (2) – >60%

unsatisfactory (1) – ≤60%

 

 

Budapest, 01. 09. 2025.

Dr. Ákos Jerzsele

head of department, associate professor

Exam information

EXAM INFORMATION OF

„PRUDENT USE OF ANTIMICROBIAL DRUGS” COURSE

In case of Moodle exam

 2025/2026/1st semester

Entrance test: 10 minutes II. and III. part: 42 minutes
Task type	Description	Points
Entrance test 10 pairing tasks	substance- mechanism of action pairing substance- mode of action pairing substance- group of antibiotics pairing	0 points: In case of two or more mistakes, the exam is unsatisfactory. 6 points: In case of one mistake. 10 points: Perfect solution.
II. part 20 questions	simple choice	20 points
III. part 20 tasks	true or false questions	20 points

Budapest, 01. 09. 2023.

Dr. Ákos Jerzsele

head of department, associate professor