Infectious Diseases
Overview
Provides specialist assessment and treatment for a broad spectrum of infectious diseases, including complex, persistent, imported, and immunocompromised-host infections.
Key Strengths at Kobe University Hospital
- Expert management of difficult-to-diagnose infection, fever of unknown origin, and infections in medically complicated patients.
- Experience with tuberculosis, HIV-related disease, imported infection, and severe infection requiring multidisciplinary support.
- Collaboration with surgery, intensive care, hematology, transplantation-related services, and infection control teams across the hospital.
Major Conditions / Services
- Fever of unknown origin and difficult infection
- Tuberculosis, HIV-related disease, and sexually transmitted infection
- Tropical or imported infection and infection in immunocompromised patients
Representative Procedures / Programs
- Specialist infectious disease consultation
- Antimicrobial strategy for complex infection
- Multidisciplinary infection control and inpatient management