Infectious Disease
Providing Care for Acute and Chronic Childhood Infections
Our infectious diseases specialists provide consults and screenings for the diagnosis of acute and chronic infections, ranging from common childhood illnesses, to complex viral infections and serious bacterial or fungal infections. We see diseases associated with foreign travel, and infections in children undergoing treatment for cancer and blood-borne diseases.We work closely with your child’s pediatrician, intensive care doctors, neonatologists and other specialists to provide comprehensive, quality care for conditions such as:
- Antibiotic-resistant and recurrent infections
- Blood infections
- Bone infections
- Diseases acquired during foreign travel
- Hepatitis
- HIV/AIDS
- Infections that develop while undergoing treatment for cancer and other blood-borne diseases
- Lyme Disease
- Meningitis
- Skin infections (including MRSA)
- Tuberculosis
Preventive Care for Traveling Abroad
TravelKids helps prepare your child for an international trip.
TravelKids, located at Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital in Hackensack, develops customized recommendations to meet your child’s needs and travel plans, including the following services:
- Review of local outbreaks
- Food and water counseling
- Malaria and insect protection
- Community service project risk assessment
- Yellow fever immunization
- International vaccination certificate
- Typhoid fever immunization
- Japanese encephalitis immunization
- Rabies immunization
Contact Us
Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital
at Hackensack University Medical Center
Pediatric Ambulatory Center
Don IMUS Building, 3rd Floor
Call: 551-996-5308
K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital
at Jersey Shore University Medical Center
19 Davis Avenue, HOPE Tower, 5th Floor
Neptune, NJ 07753
Call: 732-776-4860
