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The Division of Infectious Diseases outpatient
services includes:
- The Special Immunology Clinic which is held three times
per week for patients with HIV/AIDS (infants/children and
mothers). Services available to patients include a social
worker and a nutritionist. Members of the Division of Family
Medicine and the Division of Maternal/Fetal Medicine are
available for consultation on adult patients.
- The Infectious Diseases Clinic is held twice per week
with over 600 patient visits annually. Patients are referred
by community physicians for infectious disease related
problems.
Inpatient Services include treatment of cystic
fibrosis, infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS. Consultation services
are provided at the Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters,
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, and Virginia Beach General
Hospital. Many of these patients require outpatient follow-up
consultation visits.
The Infectious Diseases Sections of the Center
for Pediatric Research focuses its activities on gastroenteritis
viruses. In the past year, the Section has conducted research on
the following topics:
- development of new methods to detect and characterize
rotaviruses and astroviruses
- genomic diversity of rotavirus, calicivirus, and
astrovirus among circulating strains, including first
description of new strains causing human illness
- genetic analysis of the viruses to determine their
proper taxonomy and to design laboratory reagents and
experiments
- estimating the burden of gastroenteritis caused by these
three viruses, to inform decisions about which vaccines
should be developed
- detection of new diseases caused by caliciviruses
- development of new drugs to prevent and treat infection
and illness by these three viruses
- investigation of the pathogenesis of intussusception,
which led to withdrawal of the first licensed rotavirus
vaccine
- investigations of new vaccines to prevent human
infections and reformulations of old vaccines to make them
more effective or reduce their adverse effects
Faculty
Fellow
Contact Information
| Address: |
Children's Hospital
of The King's Daughters
601 Children's Lane
Norfolk, VA 23507 |
| Phone: |
(757) 668-7238 |
| Fax: |
(757) 668-8275 |
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