Bacterial diseases. Diseases caused by pyogenic bacteria. Infectious diseases of infancy and adolescence. Sexually-transmitted infctions. Infections due to enterobacteria. Salmonellosis, cholera. Pulmonary infections. Clostridial diseases: gangrene, tetanus, botulism.
Examples of zoonotic diseases: leptospirosis, borreliosis, brucellosis, plague, anthrax.
Infections due to filamentous bacteria:actinomycosis.
Chronic granulomatous infections. Syphilis and non-venereal treponematoses.
Mycobacterial diseases: tuberculosis, leprosy.
Main rickettsial and clamydial diseases.
Examples of viral diseases involving the respiratory, gastrointestinal and nervous system. Different forms of viral hepatitis. Infections by herpesviruses. Vertical and horizontal infections. Critical periods for embryonal and fetal damage. Viral exanthematic infections. Hemorrhagic fevers and arboviral diseases. Yellow fever.
Principal mycotic infections.
Parasytic diseases, their vectors and intermediate hosts. Malaria, giardiasis, toxoplasmosis, amebiasis, leishmaniosis, Chagas' disease, African trypanosomiases.
Diseases due to prions in humans and animals. The discovery of kuru and its role as a model of prionic infection in humans. Correlation between type of prionic infection, area of central nervous system damage and disease phenotype.
Helminthic diseases: filariases, diseases due to other nematodes, trematodes, and cestodes. Life cycles of the pathogens in humans and in the environment, correlations with disease mechanisms and patterns.
Infectious diseases as determinants of human pathocenoses in different societies. Selective pressure of endemic and epidemic infectious diseases, and role in the selection of genotypes prevalent in human populations.
Direct and indirect role of infections in determining cancer susceptibility. Role of infections in the selection of genotypes predisposed to genetic diseases (e.g.: malaria and spherocytosis, malaria and thalassemia, etc.).
