- Docente: Marialuisa Zerbini
- Credits: 3
- SSD: MED/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biotechnologies (cod. 0090)
Learning outcomes
Study of microrganisms and viruses in their interaction with human host and in their ability to cause pathologies. In particular, knowledge of: virulence and pathogenicity factors, dynamics of the infectious process, laboratory diagnostic techniques and drug susceptibility testing.
Course contents
Diagnosis of infection:Diagnosis of infection and identification of microrganisms and viruses; molecular techniques for the detection of nucleic acids; techniques for the detection of antigens; serological reactions and immunological diagnosis of infection.
Bacteriological Analysis: isolation and identification of pathogenetic bacteria, antibacterial drug susceptibility testing.
Virological Analysis: isolation and identification of pathogenetic viruses.
Bacterial Pathogenesis: mechanisms of host colonisation, mechanisms of pathogeneis, bacterial exotoxins.
Viral Pathogenesis: virus-cell interaction, kind of infection (cytocidal, persistent, latent, transforming); dynamics of the infectious process.
Bacteria of medical relevance
Viruses of medical relevance
Readings/Bibliography
Michele La Placa
Principi di Microbiologia Medica
Società Editrice Esculapio- 10a edizione (seconda ristampa
2006)
Teaching methods
Lecture
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
PowerPoint slides
Office hours
See the website of Marialuisa Zerbini