Children’s Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Our infectious diseases service looks after children admitted to the hospital with severe infections.

Together with the microbiologists and virologists, we also advise other teams looking after children with infections such as osteomyelitis or meningitis.

We advise on:

• diagnostic tests
• which antibiotics to use – either by cannula or medicine, or tablets – and for how long.

With this advice we aim to get the best results with as few side-effects as possible.

We provide outpatient clinics where we follow-up patients after admission, or see children with recurrent infections and auto-inflammatory syndromes.

We also have a children’s travel clinic, and specialist clinics for children with tuberculosis, HIV and other blood-borne viruses.