97197 - Antibacterial and Antifungal Therapy

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Docente: Michele Bartoletti
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/17
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Learning outcomes

1. Knowledge of main class of antimicrobials 

2. Basis of empirical antibiotic treatment in most common clinical cases 

3. Choice of antimicrobials 

4. Diffusion of knowledge 

5. Learnin Clinical Decision making process for antimicrobials

Course contents

7/06

14:00 -15:00 Priciples of empirical treatmenet and interpretation of antimicrobial  susceptibility tests  

15:00-17:00 Application of PK/PD principles in clinical use of antibiotics 

17:00 -18:00 Bone and joint infetcions -

8/06

14:00 - 15:00 Skin and soft tissue infections-

15:00 - 16:00 Invasive fungal infections -

16:00 - 17:00 Pneumonia-

17:00 - 18:00 Central Nervous System infections 

Readings/Bibliography

Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious diseases, 2-Volume Set, 9th Edition

Teaching methods

Webinar sessions 

Slide presentation 

Case vignette presentation 

Office hours

See the website of Michele Bartoletti