- 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
Bacteria, viruses, protozoa and human infection. How microorganism cause diseases
Immune response during the course of infection
Diagnosis (direct examination, isolation of microorganism from various fluids or sites specific antibody response, Serological diagnosis
Vaccines and gamma globulins
Bacteria. Spores and their meaning, genetic of bacteria, mechanism of action antimicrobial drugs, mechanism of bacterial resistance, diagnosis in bacterial infections.
Viruses. Classification, structure and replication cycle (DNA and RNA viruses), Viral cultivation
Classical identification. New technology for virus identification. Antiviral drugs
Protozoa
Bacteria sthaphilococci, streptococcus pyogenes, streptococcus pneumoniae, antrax, corynebacterium dipheriae, lysteria monocytogenes, neisseria meningitidis, neisseria gonorrhoeae, enterobacteiaceae, vibrios, elicobacter, campylobacter, brucella, legionella, clostridia, chlamidia, treponemes, mycoplama
Viruses Enterovirus (Poliovirus, Coxsackievirus, Echo) Poxvirus, Herpesvirus, Papilloma virus, Polyomavirus, Orthomyxovirus, Paramyxovirus, Arenavirus, Filovirus, Rhabdovirus, Flavivirus, Togavirus, Coronavirus, Calicivirus, Retrovirus, Hepadnavirus and Hepadnaviridae and other virus as etiologic agents of hepatitis.
Protozoa Giardia Intestinalis, Thrichomonas vaginalis Trypanosoma, Leishamia, amebiasis, plasmodia, Toxoplasma gondii Pneumocistis carinii
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