Academic Year 2017/2018
- Docente: Stefania Varani
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dietistic (cod. 8470)
Learning outcomes
The student should recognize main characteristics of the distinct groups of microorganisms, the principal diagnostic methods for identification of microorganisms, the antimicrobial therapy, pathogenetic mechanisms employed by microbes and host response. The student should also have specific knowledge on food-borne diseases, and on important blood-borne infections such as viral hepatitis and HIV infection.
Course contents
Characteristics of microorganisms: bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa and helminths.
Mechanisms of pathogenesis and host defenses. Gut microbiota.
Principle of microbiological diagnosis.
Generalities on vaccines. Antimicrobial drugs and mechanisms of antibiotic resistance. Probiotics.
Generalities about transmission of foodborne diseases.
Bacterial infections of the gut. Other foodborne infections: zoonosis.
Viral gastroenteritis: norovirus, rotavirus.
Parasitic infections of the ìintestinal tract transmitted by oro-fecal route. Other foodborne infections caused by parasites, including protozoa (toxoplasmosis) and helmints (teniasis, trichinellosis, anisakiasis, diphyllobothriasis)
Generalities of foodborne intoxication caused by fungi: micotoxicosis.
Viral hepatitis caused by HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV and HEV.
HIV infection.
Readings/Bibliography
Microbiologia Clinica. IV edizione.E Lanciotti. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana.
Useful website: http://www.foodsafety.gov
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Teaching tools
Projector. Computer. Pdf files of lectures.
Office hours
See the website of Stefania Varani