00671 - Infectious Diseases (B)

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5904)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will know the basic principles about the most important diseases caused by pathogen microorganisms.

Course contents

  • Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
  • General principles of antibiotic therapy
  • Infections of upper and lower airways
  • Gastrointestinal infections
  • Infections of the skin and soft tissues
  • Infections of the bones and joints
  • Viral hepatitis
  • Infections of the central nervous system
  • Infections transmitted by vectors
  • Infectious andocarditis, sepsis and bacteraemia
  • HIV infection
  • Tropical infectious diseases
  • Exanthematic infectious diseases
  • Cytomegalovirus infection, infectious mononucleosis, toxoplasmosis, brucellosis, leptospirosis

Readings/Bibliography

  1. L. Calza, Principi di Malattie Infettive, 5a Edizione, Esculapio, Bologna, 2022

  2. M. Moroni, R. Esposito, S. Antinori. Malattie Infettive. Masson, 2014.

  3. Bennett JE, Dolin R, Blaser MJ. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 8th Edition. Elsevier Saunders, 2015.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons with explanatory slides.

Assessment methods

Oral test.

Teaching tools

Eplanatory slides available on the web site.

Office hours

See the website of Leonardo Calza