Diseases Managed

Management of Adult Infectious Diseases

  • Bone (osteomyelitis) infection
  • Joint infections, including prosthesis or metal joint infections
  • Chronic wound infections
  • Cellulitis
  • Home intravenous antibiotics and prolonged oral antibiotics
  • Infections due to multi-resistant organisms (e.g. MRSA, Pseudomonas, VRE, ESBL)
  • Heart (endocarditis) infections
  • Recurrent urinary tract infections
  • Recurrent Boils or furunculosis
  • Infections in returned travellers (e.g. Malaria, Dengue, diarrhoea, Typhoid)
  • Arboviral infections
  • Tuberculosis
  • HIV, Hepatitis B & C
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections (e.g. Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, recurrent genital herpes)
  • Pyrexia of unknown origin
  • Infections in patients with poor immune function such as those on cancer treatments, immune deficiencies or due to steroid treatment.

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