- Docente: Maria Carla Re
- Credits: 8
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will know:
General characteristic of bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi and parasites.
Routes of transmission
The establishment of pathogenic host-parasite interaction
Incubation period
The role of immunity during the course of infection
The meaning of production of infection and production of disease
The diagnosis of infection (direct and indirect). Collection of specimens, request for testing, tests employed, interpretation of tests
Basic concept of prophylaxis and therapy.
Principle of treatment. Antimicrobial drugs and mechanism of resistance
Most relevant bacteria (focusing on their characteristic, mechanism of action, symptoms, diagnosis, therapy, available vaccine)
Most relevant viruses (focusing on their characteristic, mechanism of action, symptoms, diagnosis, therapy, available vaccine)
Most relevant protozoa, fungi and parasites (focusing on their characteristic, mechanism of action, symptoms, diagnosis, therapy, available vaccine)
Course contents
Microbiology (8 CFU).
A.A. 2012-13 - Prof. Maria Carla Re and prof. Tiziana Lazzarotto
Medical microbiology
Medical microbiology. Manifestations of infection. Microbial causes of infection.
Bacteria, viruses, protozoa and human infection. How microorganism cause diseases.
Immune response during the course of infection. Principles of direct and indirect diagnosis. Vaccines and gammaglobulins.
Bacteria. Spores and their meaning, bacterial genetics, mechanism of action antimicrobial drugs, mechanism of bacterial resistance, diagnosis of bacterial infections.
Viruses. Classification, structure and replication cycle (DNA and RNA viruses), viral cultivation. Classical identification. New technology for virus identification. Antiviral drugs.
Bacteria. Sthaphilococci, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus agalactiae, Bacillus, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Lysteria monocytogenes, Neisseria meningitidis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Enterobacteiaceae, Vibrio, Helicobacter, Campylobacter,Brucella, Legionella, clostridia, Chlamydia, treponemes, Mycoplasma.
Viruses. Enterovirus (Poliovirus, Coxsackievirus, Echo) Poxvirus, Herpesvirus, Papillomavirus, Polyomavirus, Orthomyxovirus, Paramyxovirus, Arenavirus, Filovirus, Rhabdovirus, Flavivirus, Togavirus, Coronavirus, Calicivirus, Retrovirus, the virus as etiologic agents of primary hepatitis.
Protozoa. Giardia intestinalis, Trichomonas vaginalis Trypanosoma, Leishamia, Amoebae, Plasmodia, Toxoplasma gondii, Pneumocistis carinii (Pneumocystis jirovecii).
Fungi. The most important fungal infections.
Fungi most important fungal infections
Readings/Bibliography
Michele La Placa. Principi di Microbiologia Medica. XIV edizione
Teaching methods
in-class lecture. Pease see also teaching tools
Assessment methods
Oral examination. Student, at the end of
course, must know the general characteristic of bacteria, viruses,
protozoa, fungi and parasites, routes of transmission, the
diagnosis of infection.
In addition, most relevant bacteria, viruses, protozoa
, fungi and parasites (focusing on their characteristic,
mechanism of action, symptoms, microbiological diagnosis, therapy,
available vaccines)
Teaching tools
Slides. In-class lectures will be supported by slides. Most of slides will be online available at the end of the course.
Office hours
See the website of Maria Carla Re