- Docente: Stefania Varani
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biomedical Laboratory techniques (cod. 8484)
Learning outcomes
The student should recognize the main characteristics of protozoa, helminths and fungi that are responsible for human infections and the laboratory methods for identification of these microorganisms.
Course contents
- Protozoa: characteristics and infections in the human host. Arthropode-borne protozoan infections: malaria, leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis. Food-borne protozoal infections: toxoplasmosis; giardiasis, amebiasis. Infections caused by other protozoa such as Trichomonas vaginalis and Acanthamoeba spp.
- General characteristics of helminths and helmint infections in the human host. Intestinal helminthiasis (ossiuriasis, ascaridiasis, trichuriasis, anchilostomiasis, teniasis); systemic infections caused by helmints: schistosomiasis, filariasis.
- General characteristics of fungi and fungal infections in the human hosts. Cutaneous and muco-cutaneous micosis (dermatophytes and Candida albicans) and systemic, opportunistic infections (candidiasis, aspergillosis).
Readings/Bibliography
Parassitologia medica e diagnostica parassitologica. Brandonisio et al. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana.
Micologia Medica. Caretta G. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana.
Useful webpages:
https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/az.html
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Teaching tools
Projector. Computer. Pdf files of lectures.
Office hours
See the website of Stefania Varani