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Infectious diseaseYour experts in the diagnosis and management of infections

UW Health provides inpatient, outpatient and emergency consultative services for the diagnosis and management of complex infectious diseases and unexplained febrile illnesses, as well as bacterial infections including endocarditis, meningitis and acute and chronic osteomyelitis.

Conditions and treatments

Experience and expertise in infections of many types

Conditions we treat

  • Flu

  • HIV

  • Lyme disease

  • COVID-19

  • Zika virus

  • Meningitis

  • Mpox

  • Mumps

  • Osteomyelitis

  • Tuberculosis

  • Tropical diseases and parasitic infections

  • Deep fungal infections

  • Viral diseases

  • Recurrent infections

Treatments

  • Administration of antiparasitic and antiviral drugs

  • Diagnosis and management of complex infectious diseases

  • Dressing changes

  • Home health and other community referrals

  • Immunizations for foreign travel

  • In-hospital antimicrobial utilization review

  • Monitoring of home intravenous antibiotic therapy

  • Nonsocomial infection control

  • Patient education

  • Rational use of immunizations and vaccines

  • Transplant evaluations

Locations

Convenient access to expert care

Meet our team

Providers with the skills and care to improve your life

Infectious diseases

Research

Our researchers work to transform medicine every day

Research in the University of Wisconsin Division of Infectious Disease spans the continuum of disease pathogenesis and immunology, to epidemiology and prevention, to drug resistance and discovery.

Learn more about the work of our numerous infectious disease research teams