- Docente: Matteo Rinaldi
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/17
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5908)
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from Nov 07, 2025 to Dec 05, 2025
Learning outcomes
Describe the clinical manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, risk factors, natural history, diagnosis, staging, prognostic indicators and management of the major infectious diseases, with emphasis on those most commonly encountered in the clinical practice.
Course contents
Epidemiology of infectious diseases
Lower respiratory tract infections
Hospital-acquired infections
Viral hepatitis
Bloodstream infections and endocarditis
Viral and bacterial meningitis
Sepsis and septic shock
HIV and AIDS
Tuberculosis
Readings/Bibliography
Infectious Diseases Chapter-Harrison
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons supported by power point presentations
Assessment methods
Written questions with multiple choices.
Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.
Teaching tools
Power point slides will be provided to the students.
Office hours
See the website of Matteo Rinaldi