SCIENZE BIOMEDICHE

Detailed Course Content

• ANATOMIA UMANA

  The course includes the fundamentals of the anatomical organization, systems that belong the human body and applications of Topographical, Radiological and Clinical Anatomy.

• General and applied microbiology

  1. Introduction to Microbiology: the pathogenic mechanisms of microorganisms, microorganism-host relationships.

  2. The bacteria: the organization of the bacterial cell; mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis: role of bacteria in disease.

  3. Fungi: fungal cell structure; mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis.

  4. Virus: Characteristics of virus and their replication; mechanisms of viral pathogenesis; types of viral infection: acute and persistent infection.

  5. The antimicrobial chemotherapy: the main characteristics of antimicrobial drugs and their mechanisms of resistance.

  6. Vaccines.

  7. General principles of laboratory diagnostics of infectious diseases.

  8. General principles of sterilization, disinfection, and antisepsis.

  9. Infections of the skin, bones and joints.

  10. Infections of the uro-genital tract.

  11. Infections of the fetus and the newborn.

  12. Infections of the Respiratory tract. Tubercolosis.

  13. Infections of the gastrointestinal tract.

  14. Infections of the nervous system.

  15. Opportunistic and nosocomial infections.

Textbook Information

• ANATOMIA UMANA

  1. Ambrosi G. et Al.: Anatomia dell'Uomo, Ed. Edi-Ermes

  2. Hole’s Anatomia e Fisiologia per le professioni sanitarie, Ed. McGraw-Hill

  3. Martini, Timmons, Tallitsch – Anatomia Umana – Quinta edizione EdiSES

• Biochemistry

  1. Siliprandi-Tettamanti. Biochimica Medica. Piccin.

  2. Nelson Cox. I principi di Biochimica di Lehninger. Zanichelli

  3. Devlin. Biochimica con aspetti clinici. EdiSES

  4. Berg Jeremy M. - Tymoczko John L. - Stryer Lubert. Biochimica. Ed. Zanichelli

• General and applied microbiology

  Cevenini R.. Sambri V., Microbiologia e microbiologia clinica, Per i Corsi di Laurea in professioni sanitarie – Ed. Piccin

  All students can use didactic material downloadable from the studium.unict.it web site.