Consultation service for tropical medicine / infectiology patient problems at the hospital

The section advises inpatients at the UKHD on complex infectiological problems in collaboration with Medical Microbiology and Hygiene.

Proven cooperation already exists with

• Internal Medicine (in particular the Departments of Gastroenterology and Infectiology; Gastro-Wake and Gastro-Intensive, in particular malaria patients requiring intensive care,
• the Surgical Clinic (in particular interdisciplinary management of patients with cystic echinococcosis; extrapulmonary tuberculosis in migrants),
• the Eye Clinic (in particular uveitis consultation: clarification of imported parasitic infectious diseases of the eye),
• the women's clinic / neonatal department of pediatrics (toxoplasmosis),
• the transplant departments (parasitic / imported infectious diseases in immunocompromised patients),
• Pediatrics (malaria and other imported diseases),
• the neurology clinic (parasitic diseases, in particular neurocysticercosis).