The infective diseases clinic

The Clinic of Infectious Diseases was created at Erasme Hospital in 1980. Its main activity consists in taking care of patients with infectious complications in various hospital departments. Its main scientific contributions concern the evaluation of new treatments, pharmacokinetics of antimicrobial agents and physiopathology of sepsis. The evaluation of the impact of infectious diseases on the appropriateness of antimicrobial therapy and the control of infection is a major contribution of the clinic. Several works concern the study of the immune response in case of infection due to an intracellular pathogen and in response to vaccination.