The Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases provides in-patient consultation services to all pediatric services at University Medical Center, and Tucson Medical Center. In addition, the section is on-call 24 hours a day to provide informal phone consultative services to physicians and physician-assistants both in Tucson and throughout Arizona.
Examples include:
- Lymphadenitis
- Bone & joint infections
- Pneumonia and complicated respiratory infections
- Coccidioidomycosis and other fungal infections
- Tuberculosis
- Opportunistic infections in immunosuppressed children
- Conditions producing diagnostic dilemmas, such as fever of unknown origin, periodic fevers, severe or recurrent infections
- Anti-microbial-resistant infections
- Central nervous system infections
- HIV/AIDS
- Zoonoses
- Initial evaluation of children with recurrent infections
In addition to its clinical services, the section focuses on clinical research and has a strong presence in both administration and education of both medical students and housestaff.
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