Research

Department staff frequently publish their research results in influential medical publications. They also have more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals to their credit in the past 5 years, in addition to many book chapters. Current research interests include:

• Control and rational use of antibiotics
• Clinical epidemiology of Clostridium difficile
• Nosocomial bacteremia and endocarditis
• Quinolone- and aminoglycoside-resistant E. coli infections
• Origins of HIV and genetic factors influencing its transmission
• Epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections and their role in the transmission of HIV
• Molecular epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni infection

Details of these ongoing projects are given under the list of Department professors.