- Docente: Stefania Varani
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
The student should recognize the main characteristics of virus, bacteria, protozoa and helminths that are responsible for tropical infections, their transmission routes, the pathogenic mechanisms and the main diagnostic methods for identification of these microorganisms.
Course contents
- Arthropod-borne viral infections: Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya virus
- Leishmaniasis
- Intestinal geo-helminthiasis
- Schistosomiasis
- Filariasis
- Parasitic infections in the immunocompromised patients
Readings/Bibliography
Important websites:
http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/Pages/home.aspx
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2014/table-of-contents
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Written exam
Teaching tools
Projector and PC. Pdf files of lectures.
Office hours
See the website of Stefania Varani