SS 2024 Sports Hygiene

SS 2023 Sports Hygiene (Meyer, Gärtner)

Sports Hygiene is a relatively new field that has become very visible during the Covid-19 pandemic. It deals with the protection of athletes against infectious diseases. Based on recent own research and extensive experience from practice, we are aiming at giving proper instructions to students about how to behave hygienically in high-performance sport. Due to the scarcity of prospective scientific papers in the field, the seminar will be very much based on case reports and case series with specific epidemiological procedures to investigate occurrences of infectious diseases in athletes and teams/groups. Introductions into basic infectiology, immune mechanisms and vaccination will precede more sport-specific topics which will have to be covered by students´ presentations (task no. 1). Topic choice will depend on the number of participating students.
  • Infectious agents and modes of transmission
  • Types of immune response
  • General principles of infection prevention (including vaccination)
  • Documented infectious outbreaks in sport
  • Skin infections
  • Airborne infections and elite sport
  • Covid-19 and elite sport
  • GI infections (fecal-oral transmission) and elite sport
  • Vector-borne infections and elite sport
  • Parenteral infections and elite sport
Second obligatory task to pass the course will be the production of a textbook chapter about the topic that has been presented (max. 5 pages until August 31st).

SS 22 Sports hygiene (Current relevant topics in high-performance sport)

Sports Hygiene (Current relevant topics in high-performance sport)

This course will be about all relevant hygiene aspects in high-performance sport. After an introduction with explanations about various infectious agents from the course leader, case reports from the scientific literature will be utilized to illustrate dangers from infections, their transmission routes and appropriate preventive actions. Case reports will be presented and discussed by participating students. Second obligatory task to pass the course will be the production of a textbook chapter about the topic that has been presented (max. 5 pages until August 31st).

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