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00671 - Infectious Diseases (LZ-B)

Academic Year 2018/2019

                
                        Docente:
                        Leonardo Calza
                    
                        Credits:
                        3
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in
                            Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will know the basic principles about epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinics, therapy and prevention of the most important infectious diseases.

Course contents

General principles of Infectious Diseases

Antimicrobial chemotherapy; antimicrobial chemoprophylaxis

Infections of the upper and lower respiratory tract. Interstitial and alveolar pneumonia, influenza, legionellosis, nosocomial pneumonia, pneumonia of the immunocompromised host. Main features of tuberculosis

Infections and toxin-mediated diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract; toxin-mediated disease caused by Staphylococci, Echerichia coli, other bacteria; salmonellosis, typhoid fever, cholera, shigellosis, botulism

Central nervous system infections: meningitides, meningoencephalitis, brain abscess (of bacterial and fungal origin)

Sepsis, septic shock, meningococcemia

Tick-borne infections: Lyme disease, rickettsiosis, leptospirosis

HIV infection and AIDS: basic virology and immunology, epidemiology, clinical features, stomatological complications and head and neck disorders, principles di antiretroviral therapy, prevention guidelines

General features on infections in the immunocompromised host

General principles of exhanthematic diseases: measles, rubella, varicella, herpes zoster, scarlet fever, megaloeritema infettivo, esantema critico; available vaccines

Other viral infections: infectious mononucleosis, herpes simplex virus infection, Cytomegalovirus infection, mumps

Infectious endocarditis: etiology, clinical features, principles of diagmosis, management, and prevention

Viral hepatitis: hepatitis due to HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV, HEV, other liver-tropic viruses; available vaccines

Tropical diseases

Readings/Bibliography

L. Calza. Principi di Malattie Infettive. IV Edizione. Esculapio, 2017.
M. Moroni, R. Esposito, S. Antinori. Malattie Infettive. Masson, 2014.
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 or written test.

Teaching tools

Teaching material available on the coruse web site.

Office hours

See the website of Leonardo Calza