[afro-nets] Open Learning Web site on Enteric pathogens

[Salvatore Rubino <rubino@uniss.it>]

Open Learning Web site on Enteric pathogens
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Dear Friends of the Open Learning Web site on Enteric pathogens

A new lecture is available at
http://www.aclisassari.com/acli-openlearning/uploads/lectures/dl_lectures/authors.htm

Gassama Sow Amy (Senegal), Integrons in enteric bacteria iso-
lated in Senegal (Subsaharan-Africa)

In this lecture the molecular mechanisms of antibiotics resis-
tance and the molecular mechanisms of transmission of resistance
genes are described in enteric bacteria isolated in Senegal

Ciao
Salvatore Rubino
mailto:rubino@uniss.it

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PUBLISHED LECTURES

Berrilli F. (Italy) Giardia and giardiasis. Epidemiology, diag-
nosis and prevention of the protozoan flagellate Giarda duode-
nalis, the etiological agent of giardiasis.

Beuzòn C. R. (Spain) Type III: segretion and Pathogensis - Les-
sons from Salmonella. The lecture reviewes the mechanism of type
3 secretion system and their contribution to pathogenicity in
Salmonella, with a focus on the role of SifA during bacteria
replication in macrophage.

Bodrossy L. (Austria) Microbial diagnostic microarrays. An over-
view of microarrays-based diagnostic technologies

Braoudaki M. (United States) Development and spread of antibi-
otic resistance in Salmonella enterica. The presentation summa-
rizes basic knowledge on Salmonella resistance to drugs and how
the genetic determinants of such resistance may spread.

Bueno M., Susan (Chile) Excision of pathogenicity islands in
Salmonella Typhi. The lecture focuses on the mosaic structure of
S. enterica serovar Typhi pathogenicity island SPI-7. A possible
explanation of how SPI-7 could be excised is provided.

Cardona N. (Colombia) Salmonellosis and its impact on public
health. A lecture on the impact of Salmonellosis on public
health with a description of Colombia situation.

Cardoso M. (Brazil) Salmonellosis. The lecture reviewes clinical
and etiopathogenic features of typhoid fever and non-typhoidal
Salmonellosis and illustrates the state of the art of network
surveillance and prevention strategies.

Cerquetti M. C. (Argentina) Partecipation of nitric oxide in the
protective immunity induced against Salmonella enterica serovar
Enteritidis. The lectures provides experimental data on the con-
tribution of nitric oxide to immune innate and adaptive response
to Salmonella.

Colombo M. M. (Italy) Vibrio cholerae and its genetic features.
A lecture on V. cholerae: general features, antigenic structure,
genetic organization, drug resistance, virulence genes, molecu-
lar epidemiology, with reference to African epidemics.

Conaldi P. G. (Italy) Viruses causing gastroenteritis. A review
an Viruses causing gastroenteritis in humans.

Delmée Michel (Belgium) Clostridium difficile associated diar-
rhoea: physiopathology, diagnosis, management. An interesting
lecture on the laboratory diagnosis, pathogenicity and treatment
of Clostridium difficile, responsible of diarrhoea.

Dore M. P. (Italy) Clinical management of diarrheal diseases. A
very extensive lecture on etiology, pathogenesis and clinical
management of acute and chronic diarrhea.

Earl P. R. (Mexico) Ascaris, Trichuris, Enterobius, Ancylostoma,
Strongyloides and Trichinella (Nematoda), and the diseases that
these roundworms cause in humans. An introduction on nematode hu-
man pathogens.

Earl P. R. (Mexico) Amebiasis Amebiasis or amebic dysentary is
caused by the protozoan Entamoeba histolytica. Here is described
the characteristics of this parasite and its diagnosis.

Earl P. R. (Mexico) Diarrhea caused by waterborne Entamoeba,
Giardia, Cryptosporidum and Cyclospora. Description of water-
borne protozoa that causes diarrhea and relative water manag-
ment.

Fuchs T. M. (Germany) Salmonella pathogenicity. An updated over-
view of Salmonella mechanism of pathogenicity with a focus on
SPI-1 and SPI-2 encoded and or secreted virulence genes.

Gaind R. (India) Enteric fever - Epidemiology clinical features
and antibiotic resistance in India. A lecture illustrating epide-
miological, clinical, laboratory and treatment aspects of ty-
phoid fever in India.

Gamazo C. (Spain) Salmonella control through vaccination Salmo-
nella Vaccines.

pdf J. Garaizar, A. Rementeria, J. Alvarez (Spain) Development
of a multiplex PCr for detection and typing of Salmonella in
clinical samples. A lecture on the use of PCR for the detection
of Salmonella.

Gassama Sow, Amy (Senegal) Integrons in enteric bacteria iso-
lated in Senegal (Subsaharan-Africa). In this lecture the molecu-
lar mechanisms of antibiotics resistance and the molecular
mechanisms of transmission of resistance genes are described in
enteric bacteria isolated in Senegal.

Ghenghesh K. S. (Libya) New emerging pathogens-Aeromonas. The
lecture reports headlines of emerging bacterial pathogens and
focuses, as an example, on Aeromonas.

Kariuki S. (Kenia) Increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant
non-typhoidal salmonellae, Kenya, 1994-2003. The lecture deals
with the problem of the increasing of multidrugs resistant Sal-
monella in a developing country such as Kenya.

Kariuki S. (Kenia) Typhoid fever in Africa: emerging fluoroqui-
nolone resistance. A presentation on Salmonella Antibiotic re-
sistance trend in Kenia.

McCormick B. A. (United States) Molecular cross-talk between
epithelial cells and enteric pathogens. A very extensive lecture
on interaction between enteric pathogens and epithelial cells,
with a focus on how enteric pathogens cause inflammatory and/or
secretory diarrhea.

Miranda J., Curioso W. H. (United States) Cholera, global health
and lessons learned from Peru. The lecture defines environ-
mental, clinical, molecular and epidemiological issues of V.
cholerae and outlines how the occurrence and spreading of Chol-
era disease may depend on political, economic, and cultural
global factors.

Musumeci S. (Italy) Helicobacter pylori infection in Burkina
Faso: an enigma within an enigma. A lecture on H. pylori inci-
dence in Burkina Faso and its poor association to peptic ulcer.

Musumeci S. (Italy) Epidemiology of bacterial resistance in a
tropical area. The lecture reports the epidemiology of entric
bacteria drug resistance in Burkina Faso.

Nimri L. (Jordan) Polymicrobial infections in pediatric patients
in a rural area of Jordan. A lecture on the etiologies of acute
and persistent diarrhoea in children of a rural area in Jordan
and the risk factors associate with their transmission.

Okeke I. N. (United States) Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli.
A lecture on a specific diarrheagenic E. coli.

Paglietti B. (Italy) Enterobacteriaceae. An introduction to En-
terobacteriaceae.

Peng X. (China) Proteomics and vaccine. A review on the strate-
gies to obtain new vaccines.

Pompei R. (Italy) Food quality and microbial infection. It is a
basic lecture that gives some updated information on the rela-
tionship between foods and microbial pathogens, with some data
on microbial epidemiology and methods for microbial detection
and disease prevention.

Rossolini G.M., Pallecchi L. et al. (Italy) Emergence and diffu-
sion of antimicrobial resistance in low-resource Countries. A
lecture on antimicrobial use and microbial resistance in devel-
oping countries.

RubinoS. (Italy) Surveillance of Salmonellosis in developing
countries - a model of cooperation. The lecture illustrates mod-
els of cooperation to achieve better surveillance and prevention
strategies of Salmonellosis in developing countries.

Rychlik I. (Czech Republic) Plasmids in Salmonella enterica. A
lesson on the general features of Salmonella plasmids and their
contribution to virulance, antibiotic resistance, and phage re-
sistance.

Sangwei Lu (USA) Salmonella enteritidis, Molecular Epidemiology.
A lecture on the control of Salmonella enteritidis using molecu-
lar methods.

Santos de Lima R. (Brasil) Inflammation at first
sight: the encounter of Salmonella and intestinal epithelial
cells. The lecture describes the molecular basis and the kinetics
of interaction between Salmonella and the intestinal tissue with
an emphasis on epithelial pro-inflammatory response.

Sechi L. (Italy) Mycobacterium paratuberculosis. Mycobacterium
paratuberculosis, a successful obligate enteric pathogen.

Singh, B.R. (India) Prevalence of Salmonella serovars in animals
in India. The lecture gives detailed information on the preva-
lence of Salmonella serovars isolated in India from animals.

Singh B.R., Mudit Chandra, Meenu Agarawal, V.P. Singh, M.P.
Yadav (India) Salmonellosis in Indian buffaloes. A study on the
prevalence of Salmonellosis in Indian buffaloes.

Singh B. R., Sharma G., Ravi Kant Agrawal, Mudit Chandra & Babu
N. (India) Detection of Haemolysins of Salmonella enterica se-
rovars. A lecture on methods for the identification of haemolis-
ins in Salmonella and its possible role in pathogenicity.

Tadjbakhsh, Hassan (Iran) Enteric disease in the course of Ira-
nian history. A short lecture of history of medicine focused on
enteric diseases, particularly on Epidemic of Cholera and Plague
from 13th Until 18th Centuries in Iran.

Telo A. (Albania) Isolation of Salmonella organisms from egg
shells and contents. A lecture on methods for isolation of Salmo-
nella in eggs.

Tognotti E. (Italy) An Italian Primacy? The Research on the
causative agent of cholera and the Discovery of Filippo Pacini
(1854). This lecture will focus on the history of the discovery
of Pacini and on the reasons for which it remained to level of
intuition not being able the Italian scientist to offer a labo-
ratory evidence to demonstrate the relationship between vibrios
and cholera.

Tondo E. (Brazil) Salmonellosis in the South of Brazil. A
lecture on the spread of Salmonella enteritidis in the South of
Brazil.

Tomas J. M. (Spain) Molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogene-
sis from an emerging pathogen-Aeromonas. An introduction on Aero-
monas mechanisms of pathogenicity.

Van Immerseel, Filip (Belgium) Salmonella in cats. This lecture
overviews Salmonella infections in cats, in relation to trans-
mission to humans.

Youssef M. (Jordan) PCR-based LightCycler Technology and its Ap-
plication in Diagnosis and Typing of diarrheagenic Escherichia
coli. A lecture on the use of Real Time PCR for diagnosis and
typing of E.coli.

Prof. Salvatore Rubino
Dip. di Scienze Biomediche
V.le San Pietro 43/b
07100 Sassari (Italy)
Tel: +39-79-228-302
Fax: +39-79-212-345
Cell:+39-3383865292
mailto:rubino@uniss.it