Research
UW Health's infectious disease specialists are active in many research activities, including:
- Hospital epidemiology
- The rational use of antibiotics for treating life threatening infection
- Virulence mechanisms of bacterial pathogens
- Antimicrobial pharmacology
- Animal models of bacterial infection
- The seroepidemiology of viral-caused myocarditis/cariomypopathy and Type 1 diabetes mellitus
- Serodiagnosis of deep fungal infection
- Endotoxic shock
- Polymorphonuclear granulocyte function
- Staphylococcal infection
- Prevention of infection in nursing homes
- AIDS and HIV infection, opportunistic infections
