Children are not just small adults. Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialists are professionally trained to examine and treat children in a way that makes them relaxed and cooperative. They also understand the unique signs, symptoms, treatments, and outcomes/prognoses associated with infectious diseases in infants and children, which can be quite different from those of adults with such infections.
What kind of training do pediatric infectious diseases specialists have?
Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialists are medical doctors who have:
What types of treatments do pediatric infectious diseases specialists provide?
Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialists treat a wide range of infectious and immunologic
diseases such as those caused
by bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. Pediatric 
Infectious Disease Specialists may also be consulted for diseases that are complicated
or atypical, including:
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Department of Pediatrics
Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
BG 1104
1120 15th Street
Augusta, GA 30912
706-721-2457
user icon Titia Harris, Office Specialist
Children's Hospital of Georgia
Pediatric Patient Phone
706-664-0584
