Division Of Infectious Diseases

Areas of Clinical Competence

• Approach to the febrile patient

• Fever of unknown origin

• Upper respiratory infections

• Pleuropulmonary and bronchial infections

• Urinary tract infections

• Peritonitis and intraabdominal infections

• Cardiovascular infections

• Central nervous system infections

• Skin & soft tissue infections

• Infections from bites, burns, trauma

• GI infections, food poisoning

• Bone & joint infections

• Infections of reproductive organs

• Sexually transmited diseases

• Infections of the eye

• Hepatitis

• Sepsis syndrome

• Nosomial infections

• HIV & AIDS

• Infections in the neutopenic host

• Infections in lymphomas and acute leukemias

• Infections in marrow transplants

• Infections in solid organ transplants

• Infections in geriatric patients

• Infections in travelers

• Infections in parenteral drug users

• Antimicrobial action, pharmacokinetics, adverse reactions, indications, dosage

• Specimen collection

• Culture techniques for bacteria, fungi, viruses, chlamydia, mycoplasma, mycobacteria

• Molecular tools for diagnostics and epidemiologic investigations

• Hospital epidemiology

• Fundamentals of immunology

• Basic aspects of bacterial & viral pathogenesis

• Immunization & prophylaxis

• Immunologic therapeutics

• Quality management & cost containment in ID

• Ethical & medical/legal issues in ID

• Introduction to statistics & study design

• Clinical approach to literature review