- Docente: Leonardo Calza
- Credits: 3
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
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from Apr 29, 2025 to May 23, 2025
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will know the basic principles about epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinics, therapy and prevention of the most important infectious diseases.
Course contents
General principles of Infectious Diseases
Antimicrobial chemotherapy; antimicrobial chemoprophylaxis
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
Tick-borne infections: Lyme disease, rickettsiosis, leptospirosis
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
- L. Calza. Principi di Malattie Infettive. V Edizione. Esculapio, 2022.
- M. Moroni, R. Esposito, S. Antinori. Malattie Infettive. Masson, 2014.
- Bennett JE, Dolin R, Blaser MJ. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 8th Edition. Elsevier Saunders, 2015.
Teaching methods
Standard lessons.
Assessment methods
Oral test.
Teaching tools
Literature references.
Office hours
See the website of Leonardo Calza