00671 - Infectious Diseases

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biomedical Laboratory techniques (cod. 8484)

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes of this course are:

- basic knowledge on the general principles of infectious diseases

- essential knowledge to identify the etiology, epidemiology, clinic, diagnostic principles, and therapeutic and prophylactic guidelines of the main infectious diseases, with specific reference to the field of Biomedical Laboratory Techniques.


Course contents

1.Principles of Infectious Disease; Sepsis: grading and management

2. Bloodstream Infections and Infectious Endocarditis

3. Upper and lower Respiratory Tract infections

4. HIV and Viral Hepatitis 

5. Meningitis, Urinary tract infections and Intra-abdominal Infections

6. Tuberculosis

Readings/Bibliography

L. Calza. Principi di Malattie Infettive. V Edizione. Esculapio, 2022.
M. Moroni, R. Esposito, S. Antinori. Malattie Infettive. Masson, 2014.

Teaching methods

On-site course

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Slide

Office hours

See the website of Renato Pascale