Unit MICROBIOLOGY
- Course
- Pharmacy
- Study-unit Code
- 65010709
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Anna Vecchiarelli
- Teachers
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- Anna Vecchiarelli
- Donatella Pietrella
- Hours
- 63 ore - Anna Vecchiarelli
- 10 ore - Donatella Pietrella
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2016
- Offered
- 2017/18
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- MED/07
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course aims to provide students with elements to understand the structure and general characteristics of microorganisms. In particular, the bacteria, viruses and protozoa that cause diseases in humans, their pathogenic mechanisms and the spreading of diseases .
- Reference texts
- Principi di Microbiologia Medica
G. Antonelli, M. Clementi, G. Pozzi, G.M. Rossolini - Educational objectives
- The course aims to provide elements to understand the general characteristics of microorganisms, immune responses and their pathogenic mechanisms
- Teaching methods
- face to face
- Learning verification modality
- oral examination
- Extended program
- General Microbiology
Introduction to microorganisms.
Differences between prokariotic cells and eukariotic cells. Bacteria Morphology: cell wall of Gram+ and Gram- bacteria, Peptidoglycan biosynthesis, cytoplasm, nucleus, cytoplasmic membrane, mesosomes, capsule, pili, flagella, spora.
Physiology and metabolism: nutrition, anaerobic and aerobic bacteria, fermentation.
Bacterial growth: different ways to count bacteria, Bacterial growth curve, culture media.
Microbial Genetics: Genetic exchange among bacteria: transformation, transduction, conjugation.
Fungi: definitions, structures, reproduction, virulence factors and pathogenicity.
Virus: classification, structures, viral replication. Virus-Cell Interactions.
Bacterial virulence factors: adhesins, capsule, exoenzymes, toxins). Transmission of infectious diseases. Immunology: the role and functions of the immune system, the non-specific response and the specific response. Primary and secondary lymphoid organs. Cells of the immune system (T lymphocytes, B lymphocytes,macrophages, polymorphonuclear cells). Antigens, immunoglobulins (structure, classes). The major histocompatibility complex, cytokines, Complement system, hypersensitivity reactions (types I, II, III, IV), immune response to infections. Principal microorganisms responsible of human diseases