- Docente: Marina Tadolini
- Credits: 3
- SSD: MED/17
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5708)
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from Mar 06, 2024 to May 21, 2024
Learning outcomes
At the end of the courrse, the student will be albe to describe the clinical manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, risk factors, natural history, diagnosis, staging, prognostic indicators and management of the major infectious diseases, with emphasis on those most commonly encountered in the clinical practice.
Course contents
1. General principles of diagnosis and management of Infectious Diseases. Epidemiology of infectious diseases. Definitions.
2. Infections of the upper and lower respiratory tract. Interstitial and alveolar pneumonia, influenza, legionellosis, nosocomial pneumonia, pneumonia of the immunocompromised host, COVID-19.
3. Central nervous system infections: meningitis, meningoencephalitis, brain abscess (of bacterial and fungal origin)
4. Gastrointestinal, intra-abdominal and urinary tract infections.
5. Sepsis and septic shock, definitions and management. Infections in special host (immunocompromised, elderly, pregnancy)
6. Skin and soft tissue infections + bone and joint infections.
7. HIV infection and AIDS: basic virology and immunology, epidemiology, clinical features, stomatological complications and head and neck disorders, principles di antiretroviral therapy, prevention guidelines
8. Exhanthematic diseases: measles, rubella, varicella, herpes zoster, scarlet fever, and others. Available vaccines. Other viral infections: infectious mononucleosis, herpes simplex virus infection, Cytomegalovirus infection, mumps
9. Mycobacterial diseases
10. Bacteremia and infectious endocarditis: etiology, clinical features, principles of diagnosis, management, and prevention
11. Viral hepatitis: hepatitis due to HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV, HEV; available vaccines
12. Infections in returning travelers and tropical diseases
Readings/Bibliography
- L. Calza. Principi di Malattie Infettive. V Edizione. Esculapio, 2022.
- Infectious Diseases Chapter-Harrison
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons supported by power point presentations
Assessment methods
Oral test
Teaching tools
power point slides will be provided to the students as well as pdf versions of key manuscripts/chapters
Office hours
See the website of Marina Tadolini