Pediatrics Infectious Diseases

This department evaluates and manages patients with infectious diseases, especially those endemic to the Philippines and tropical countries, such as:

• Dengue hemorrhagic fever and fevers of unknown origin
• Bacterial and non-bacterial pneumonias
• Neonatal infections (congenital TORCH, sepsis, Pneumonia, necrotizing enterocolitis)
• Neurologic infections (Meningitis, encephalitis)
• Febrile neutropenia in children on chemotherapy
• Unusual non-bacterial infections (pulmonary and extrapulmonary Tuberculosis, cryptococcal infections, pneumocystis jirovecci, HIV/AIDS, extra-intestinal amoebiasis, mononucleosis)
• Bacterial community-acquired and nosocomial sepsis and pneumoniaa
• Kawasaki Disease