UF Health Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology in Jacksonville offers the only comprehensive pediatric infectious disease service in Northeast Florida.
Pediatric infectious diseases: Our expertise
Our University of Florida pediatricians are accomplished practitioners who are dedicated to the prevention, detection and care of childhood infectious diseases.
- These experts work with primary care physicians and community agencies to ensure children have full access to immunizations, and parents and caregivers understand how to prevent contagious diseases.
- Pediatric specialists are also available for consultation and training for local physicians and their staffs.
Infectious diseases we treat
Specialists in the division provide individualized consultation and advice for the child's primary care physician. They also care for hospitalized children with infectious diseases, such as:
- Bone and joint infections
- Fever of unknown origin (FUO)
- Fifth's disease
- HIV/AIDS
- Immunodeficiency disorders
- Influenza
- Kawasaki disease
- Measles and rubella
- Meningitis
- MRSA infections
- Mumps
- Pertussis or whooping cough
- Pneumonia
- Recurrent infections
- Roseola
- Travel medicine and international adoption
- Tuberculosis
- Varicella or chicken pox