Department of Internal Medicine - Fellowship Training in Infectious Diseases
Major Areas of Research
Major areas of research in the division include:
Host defenses/Inflammation:
- Complement
- Oxygen radicals/Nitric oxide
- Cell-mediated immunity
- Phagocyte biology,
including:
- Signal transduction
- Cellular and molecular recognition
- Protein biosynthesis
- Iron and calcium metabolism
- Antimicrobial peptides
- NADPH oxidase
- Myeloperoxidase
- Phagocytosis
Hospital Epidemiology
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Prevention of nosocomial infections
- Vaccine compliance
- Outcomes research
Microbial Pathogenesis
- Parasitic diseases:
- Trypanosoma cruzi
- Leishmania donovani
- Viral diseases:
- Hepatitis viruses A, B, C, and G
- HIV
- CMV
- Bacterial Diseases:
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Helicobacter pylori
- Neisseria species
- LPS-induced septic shock
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Francisella tularensis
Clinical Research
