00671 - Infectious Diseases (A-K)

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Learning outcomes

basic knowledge of the most relevant infections in the European epidemiological landscape: pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnostic tools and clinical findings.

Course contents

Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Disease Threat

The infectivologist's dictionary

The clinical severity as instrument to improve the management of Infectious Diseases

The sespis concept and definition 

Hospital acquired infections

Low respiratory tract infections

Tuberculosis

An overview on tropical diseases

Bloodstream infections and Endocarditis

Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

Central Nervous System Infections

Bone and Joint infections

Vector-borne diseases

Viral hepatitis

HIV infection

 

Readings/Bibliography

Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's

Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 8th Edition

Teaching methods

classroom-taught lessons and lectures 

interactive pratical activities inside the Unit

attendance to daily clinical briefing with medical staff

Assessment methods

multiple choice test and oral examination

Office hours

See the website of Pierluigi Viale