Clinical Expertise
Pediatric Infectious Diseases faculty care for patients with inherited or acquired immunodeficiency, including those receiving immunosuppressive therapy for cancer, organ transplantation, bone marrow, and stem cell transplantation, as well as patients with inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatologic disorders and a wide variety of classic as well as unusual infectious disease problems. The UT Physicians general infectious-diseases clinic offers a high volume of outpatient consultation for children with a variety of infectious concerns.
This team diagnoses and treats the following infectious diseases:
- Upper and lower respiratory infections
- Central nervous system infections
- Urinary tract infections
- Cardiovascular infections
- Bone and joint infections
- Skin/soft tissue/muscle infections
- Gastrointestinal tract/intrabdominal infections
- Hepatic/biliary infections
- Ocular infections
- Reproductive tract infections
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Foreign body and catheter-related infections
- HIV infection
- Health care associated infection
- Surgical and traumatic wound infections
- Congenital and neonatal infections
- Infections in transplant patients
- Prolonged and recurrent fever
- Bloodstream infections and sepsis