00671 - Infectious Diseases (A)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the students will be introduced to the main, essential knowledge to help identify the etiology, epidemiology, clinical features, diagnostic pathways, and therapeutic and prophylaxis guidelines of the main Infectious Diseases.

-the students will be able to recognized the most common Tropical Infectious Diseases, the HIV infection, AIDS and opportunistic infections and outline their management and treatment; Viral Hepatitis . The students will be able to know how to handle the issues related to the most recent global health emergencies.

Course contents

General principles of Infectious Diseases

Antimicrobial chemotherapy; antimicrobial chemoprophylaxis i

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, SARS-Cov2

Tick-borne infections: Lyme disease, rickettsiosis

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

1. L. Calza, Principi di Malattie Infettive, 4a Edizione, Esculapio, Bologna, 2017

2. M. Moroni, R. Esposito, S. Antinori. Malattie Infettive. Masson, 2014.

3. Bennett JE, Dolin R, Blaser MJ. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 8th Edition. Elsevier Saunders, 2015.

Teaching methods

Frontal lesson will be conducted in a lecture hall where multimedia instruments are available, with the predominant support of PowerPoint slides

Assessment methods

Examination test, to be sustained concurrently with the subjects belonging to the specific "Corso Integrato"

Teaching tools

Teaching material available on the coruse web site.

Office hours

See the website of Gabriella Verucchi