Scuola di Specializzazione
Malattie Infettive e Tropicali

Welcome to the lecture website for the course: Principles of Antibiotic Therapy (CFU 2).

This course will explore fundamental and practical aspects of antibiotic therapy for the major antibiotic classes.

Lecture	Topic
1	History of antibiotic therapy/discovery
2	PK/PD principles of antibiotic therapy
3	Natural β-lactams
4	Cephalosporins
5	Carbapenems
6	Penicillin and antibiotic hypersensitivity
7	Investigational antibiotics for MDR pathogens
8	Aminoglycosides
9	Lipopeptides and glycopeptides
10	Daptomycin and Quinupristin-dalfopristin
11	Oxazolidinones
12	Fluoroquinolones
13	Tetracyclines and modified tetracyclines
14	Macrolides and lincosamindes
15	TMP/SMX
16	Colistin, metronidazole, nitrofurans and fosfomycins
17	Future antibiotics: Peptides, phages and monoclonal antibodies