Department of Infectious Diseases
The department of infectious diseases of Hygeia Hospital is engaged in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Based in the internal organization of the hospital, this Department, takes care of the patients over 14 years old. The group age 0-14 yo are managed in the pediatric department from the team of pediatric infectious disease specialists.
Some of the syndromes or diseases managed in this department are:
-viral infections (infectious mononucleosis, herpes viruses, vzv, influenza, viral hepatitis, etc)
-food infections (food poisoning, gastroenteritis, etc)
-animal origin infections (brucellosis, leptospirosis, leishmania, ricketsiosis, etc)
-different parasitic infections (ascaridiosis, oxiures, helminthes, etc)
-STDs like (gonorrhea, clamidia, HIV, mycoplasma, etc)
-central nervous system (meningitis, encephalitis, discitis, etc)
-septic status of different origin, in collaboration also with other specialists, taking care also of the cases of prolonged febrile diseases of unknown origin.