Infectious Disease Care

We provide consultations and expert treatments for HIV, fungal infections and all other infectious disorders.

Infectious Disease Care

We provide consultations and expert treatments for HIV, fungal infections and all other infectious disorders.

Our Doctors Help Prevent and Treat Serious Infections

Our infectious disease doctors are internationally renowned leaders in the prevention, treatment and management of the most complex infectious diseases. We offer comprehensive consultations to diagnose your infection correctly and create your personalized treatment plan. 

Our physicians offer the latest treatment therapies for a wide range of communicable and non-communicable diseases and infections, including:

  • Bone and joint infections
  • Encephalitis
  • Fungal infections
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Meningitis
  • SARS
  • Tuberculosis

As an academic medical center, we give you access to state-of-the-art diagnostic tools and breakthrough medications through our clinical trials. Whether you need a diagnosis or care for a serious infection, we can help treat your condition properly and provide you with strategies for preventing your infection from returning.

Conditions We Treat

HIV/AIDS

We have comprehensive clinical programs for diagnosis, management and research involving patients in all disease stages of HIV. Several of our doctors have directed the development of the latest HIV therapies, as well as therapies for the prevention and treatment of the secondary infectious and malignant complications that result from immune suppression caused by HIV. During your treatment, you will benefit from the latest diagnostic tools and therapeutic interventions, including access to the newest experimental drugs through clinical trials. We work in collaboration with our Positive Care team to provide care to all members of our community who are HIV positive. 

 

Fungal Infections

An accurate diagnosis is critical to treating your fungal infection. Our infectious disease doctors are experienced in diagnosing and treating fungal infections, including coccidioidomycosis, also known as “Valley fever,” which is endemic to Los Angeles and easily treated if accurately diagnosed. We also provide care for allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, which is often misdiagnosed as asthma. Our physicians specialize in the fungal complications associated with HIV, including cryptococcus and histoplasmosis. Several of our doctors are actively conducting research to develop newer and safer therapies for the treatment of life-threatening deep fungal infections.

 

Tuberculosis

Our doctors are widely renowned for their participation in U.S. Public Health Service studies to develop new therapies to prevent and treat tuberculosis, as well as study the way these therapies interact with other medications. Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial organisms play a key role in medical illnesses. These organisms do not confine themselves to any one subgroup of our population. If sufficiently exposed, you can develop symptomatic pulmonary tuberculosis. Bronchiectasis, a chronic lung disorder, is often complicated by an organism related to tuberculosis. Our infectious disease specialists are experts at evaluating, diagnosing and treating these infections.

 

Bone and Joint Infections

If you have artificial joint implants, you are especially subject to infectious complications. We provide evaluations and treatment for these complex bone and joint infections, which are managed in conjunction with orthopedic surgeons. Our team of infectious disease and orthopedic specialists are experts at diagnosing and treating bone infections, such as osteomyelitis, and joint infections, like septic arthritis. We provide care for patients who are referred to our team due to the complexity of their infections.

 

Other Infectious Diseases

We are at the forefront of current circulating infectious illnesses. Our infectious disease doctors often serve on expert panels to determine public policy for management of these diseases. We are widely recognized for our expertise in infectious diseases, such as West Nile virus, encephalitis, meningitis, SARS, heart valve infections, sexually transmitted diseases, transplant infections, pneumonia, food-borne infections and COVID-19. Our physicians also serve as Keck Medicine of USC’s hospital epidemiologists, ensuring that our operating rooms and hospital wards are kept in aseptic condition (free from contamination).

We Are Leaders in Infectious Disease Research and Care

Our doctors are leaders in HIV research and have directed the development of the latest HIV therapies.

You have access to the latest diagnostic tools, therapeutic interventions and experimental drugs through clinical trials.

Our doctors are widely renowned for their participation in U.S. Public Health Service studies to develop new therapies to prevent and treat tuberculosis.

Our infectious disease doctors serve on expert panels to determine public policy for management of circulating infectious diseases, such as COVID-19.

Specialties
Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Specialties
Infectious Diseases, HIV and AIDS Specialist
Specialties
Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases

Edward Charles Jones-Lopez, MD

Accepting new patients
Assistant Professor
Specialties
Infectious Diseases, HIV and AIDS Specialist

Saahir Khan, MD, PhD

Accepting new patients
Specialties
Infectious Diseases
Specialties
Infectious Diseases
Specialties
Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, Infectious Diseases

Suman Mallur Radhakrishna, MD

Accepting new patients
Specialties
Infectious Diseases, HIV and AIDS Specialist

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