PNICube is the association that groups together the academic incubators and the Italian Academic Business Plan competitions (called Start Cups). Today, it includes 34 associates between universities and incubators. It was founded with the purpose of stimulating the creation of new enterprises. University knowledge helps in subsequently introducing them to the market

1 Which haematogenous infections (bacterial, fungal and protozoal) can give rise to positive findings in the urine? What are the appropriate microbiological investigations for each infection?

2 Could you please explain the term 'zoonosis'.

3 What are soil transmitters?

4 Please explain the difference between bacteraemia and septicaemia. Can the presence of toxins, fungi or viruses in the blood also be called septicaemia?

5 I want to know about the safety of antibiotics used in pregnancy in different trimesters.

6 What are the uses and the side-effects of the antibiotic lincomycin?

7 I have a question that keeps troubling me. Is there any drug taken orally that prevents penicillin hypersensitivity reactions?

8 Is there any replacement intravenous antibiotic for those patients who have hypersensitivity to penicillin?

9 Is it correct to perform an intradermal skin sensitivity test before administering penicillin or a cephalosporin?

10 Why are antibiotics not allowed in the treatment of rotaviruses?