SOID Publications

Focus on Subspecialties
The following articles appeared in past issues of AAP News:

• Less is more: Know when to prescribe antibiotics for shorter durations (May 2023) Jency Daniel, M.D., FAAP, and Jonathan Mannheim, M.D., FAAP
• Epidemiology of infectious diseases shifting due to climate change (May 2022) Jency Daniel, M.D., FAAP, and Rachit Chawla, M.D., FAAP
• FDA program spurs development of therapeutics for COVID-19 in children, adults (April 2021) William Otto, MD, FAAP and Rachit Chawla, MD, FAAP
• Panel-based tests for GI, CNS infections give results quickly but have limitations (May 2019) Ingrid Y. Camelo, MD, MPH, FAAP and Sophie Katz, MD, FAAP
• Congenital syphilis cases soar from 2013-’17; what is pediatrician's role? (September 2018) Candice J. McNeil, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAP and Gale Burstein, MD, MPH, FAAP

• Screen patients for international travel, help them reduce illness risk (May, 2018) Katherine Richardson, MD, FAAP and Wei Li AdelineKoay, MBBS, MSc, FAAP

• Developing guidelines for S. aureus decolonization a difficult task (May, 2017) Ishminder Kaur, MD, FAAP and Emily Souder, MD, FAAP​

• Latent Tuberculosis Infection Remains an Important Health Threat for Children (May, 2016) Rana Hamdy, MD, FAAP and Zachary Willis, MD, FAAP

• How to prevent, diagnose, treat C. difficile in children​ (June, 2015) Thomas Sandora, MD, FAAP

• Doxycycline can be used to treat infections from Acne to Zoonotic diseases (May, 2014) Leena Bhattacharya Mithal, MD, FAAP and Gordon Schutze, MD, FAAP

• How to protect patients, families, from enteric zoonoses (July 2013) Karen P. Neil, MD, MSPH, FAAP

• Data show antimicrobial stewardship programs are effective (May 2013) Andrea Hahn, MD; Beth Doby, MD

• Cysticercosis among parasitic infections targeted by CDC (October 2012) Leonard R. Krilov, MD, FAAP; Paul T. Cante, MD; Amanda P. Burke, MPH

• Toxocariasis, toxoplasmosis have different causes, treatments (September 2012) Chitra Mani, MBBS; Amanda Burke, MPH  

• Chagas disease often asymptomatic but can be life-threatening if untreated (May 2012) Dennis Murray, MD, FAAP; Amanda Burke, MPH  

• Dynamic duo: Collaboration between infectious diseases subspecialists, general pediatricians improves child health (May 2011) Craig Shapiro, MD; Jennifer Vodzak, MD 

• AAP groups seek CPT codes for physician-to-physician phone consults (May 2010) Dennis Murray, MD, FAAP

• Boils, Bats, and bacteria …Oh my! (May 2006) Margaret Fisher, MD, FAAP 

• Penicillin is drug of choice for streptococcal pharyngitis (May 2005) Ellen R. Wald, MD, FAAP 

• Highest prevalence of HPV is in sexually active youths (June 2004) Joseph Bocchini, Jr., MD, FAAP

• Experts seeing increase in pertussis-related episodes, deaths in 21st Century (October 2003) Ellen R. Wald, MD, FAAP​