The Infectious Disease Section is nationally renown for its research accomplishments and the excellence of individual Section members as educators and clinicians. The Infectious Disease section also maintains a close collaborative relationship with the University of Wisconsin basic science campus: Medical Microbiology, Genetics, Biomolecular Chemistry, Molecular Pharmacology, and the School of Preventative Health (see Campus Research Opportunities and Collaborations).

Members of the Infectious Disease staff maintain research programs that enable us to offer additional information for diagnosis and treatment. Major areas of research include:

• hospital epidemiology and infections of medical devices
• prevention of infection in nursing homes
• population health
• clinical trials
• ICU infections
• antimicrobial pharmacology and pharmacogenomics
• animal models of infection
• the rational use of antibiotics for treating life-threatening infections and for prophylaxis of infection
• virulence mechanisms of bacterial pathogens
• endotoxic shock
• polymorphonuclear granulocyte function
• molecular mycology
• antibacterial and antifungal resistance mechanisms
• staphylococcal infection
• AIDS and HIV infection and opportunistic infections
• molecular virology and
• hepatitis C