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Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease

Saint Louis University's Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease provides state-of-the-art care to pediatric patients with acute and chronic infectious diseases and educates medical students, residents, and community physicians on the latest advances in the field.

Treatment is offered for all varieties of pediatric infectious disease problems for patients ranging in age from the newborns to young adults.

Pediatric Infectious Disease Training

Our division conducts introductory clinical lectures to third-year students and a consult service elective for fourth-year medical students. Faculty members also provide a monthly lecture for the Resident Lecture series and one or two residents per month rotate on the Pediatric Infectious Diseases consult service elective.

Clinical Activities

The Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease is almost exclusively a consulting service and does not have an inpatient pediatric service. We consult on approximately 400 children per year as inpatients and approximately 400 children per year as outpatients.

Aaron Miller, M.D. is responsible for the initial evaluation and continuing care of patients who are exposed to or infected with HIV. As a result, outpatient visits for the initial and follow-up evaluation of this patient population has increased.

Research

Division Research Projects

  • Grant No: AHA 17GRNT33630171
    PI: Stephen J. Barenkamp, M.D.
    Title: Development of a nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae vaccine
    Goals: Characterize bacterial outer membrane vesicles of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and assess their potential in combination with HMW1/HMW2 and Hia proteins as vaccine candidates for prevention of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae infection.

Division Extramural Academic Activities

  • NIH Study Section Member: VMD 2013-2017
  • Editorial Advisory Board: Journal of Infectious Diseases, Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, Infection and Immunity
  • Journal referee: Clinical Infectious Diseases, Infection and Immunity, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, Pediatrics, PLoS One, PLoS Pathogens, Vaccine

Publications

Edwin L. Anderson, M.D.
  • Halasa NB, Gerber MA, Berry AA, Anderson EL, Winokur P, Keyserling H, Eckard AR, Hill H, Wolff MC, McNeal MM, Edwards KM, Bernstein DI. Safety and immunogenicity of full-dose trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine compared with half-dose TIV administered to children 6 through 35 months of age. J Pediatr Inf Dis Soc 4:214-224, 2015.
  • Frey SE, Wald A, Edupuganti S, Jackson LA, Stapleton JT, El Sahly H, El-Kamary SS, Edwards K, Keyserling H, Winokur P, Keitel W, Hill H, Goll JB, Anderson EL, Graham IL, Johnston C, Mulligan M, Rouphael N, Atmar R, Patel S, Chen W, Kotloff K, Creech CB, Chaplin P, Belshe RB. Comparison of lyophilized vs liquid modified vaccinia Ankara formulations and subcutaneous versus intradermal routes of administration in healthy vaccinia-naïve subjects. Vaccine 33:5225-5234, 2015.
  • Jackson LA, Frey SE, Sahly HM, Mulligan MJ, Winokur PL, Kotloff KL, Campbell JD, Atmar RL, Graham I, Anderson EJ, Anderson EL, Patel SM, Fields C, Keitel W, Rouphael N, Hill H, Goll JB. Safety and immunogenicity of a modified vaccinia Ankara vaccine using three immunization schedules and two modes of delivery: A randomized clinical non-inferiority trial. Vaccine 35:1675-1682, 2017.
 
Aaron S. Miller, M.D.

 

  • Miller M.D., A. S., King, M. A., & Fretz, E. (2020). A 16-year old with fever and myalgia. Pediatrics in Review.
  • Miller AS, Bennett J. Challenges in the care of young infants with suspected neonatal herpes simplex virus. Hospital Pediatrics 5:106-8, 2015.
  • Miller AS, Hall LE, Jones KM, Le C, El Feghaly RE. Afebrile Infants Evaluated in the Emergency Department for Serious Bacterial Infection. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2015 Sep 23. [Epub ahead of print].
  • Ahmad FA, Storch GA, Miller AS. Impact of an Institutional Guideline on the Care of Neonates at Risk for Herpes Simplex Virus in the Emergency Department. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2015 Aug 21. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Curfman AL, Glissmeyer EW, Ahmad FA, Korgenski EK, Blaschke AJ, Byington CL, Miller AS. Initial Presentation of Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infection. Journal of Pediatrics. 2016 Mar 5. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 26960921
  • Peterson R, Miller AS. Varicella Zoster Virus Infection in Neonates. NeoReviews. September 2016, VOLUME 17 / ISSUE 9
Invited Publications
  •  Miller, A.S., Orscheln R.C., Storch, G.A. "Outpatient Antibiotics and Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance." Pediatric UPDATE. 2014; 34 (10).
Book Chapters
  • Peterson R, Miller AS. Varicella zoster virus infection in neonates. NeoReviews 17:e507-e514, 2016.
  • Miller AS. Transfer of children with infectious diseases. In Insoft R, Schwartz H, Romito J (eds): Guidelines for Air and Ground Transport of Neonatal and Pediatric Patients. American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Transport Medicine, 5th Ed, [In press].
  • Barenkamp SJ. Haemophilus influenzae. In: Cherry JD, Harrison GJ, Kaplan SL, et al. (eds): Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 8th ed., Philadelphia, Elsevier, pp 1199-1211, 2018.
  • Barenkamp SJ. Other Haemophilus species (Ducreyi, Haemolyticus, Influenzae Biogroup Aegyptius, Parahaemolyticus, and Parainfluenzae) and Aggregatibacter (Haemophilus) aphrophilus. In: Cherry JD, Harrison GJ, Kaplan SL, et al. (eds): Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 8th ed., Philadelphia, Elsevier, pp 1211-1216, 2018.
Presentations at National Meetings

Stephen J. Barenkamp, M.D.

  • Poster presentation at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Toronto, Canada. Winter LE, Barenkamp SJ. Immunogenicity of outer membrane vesicles from htrB mutant nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and protective ability in the chinchilla model of otitis media.
Abstracts

Aaron S. Miller, MD

  • Curfman A, Glissmeyer E, Ahmad F, Korgenski E, Blaschke A, Byington C, Miller A. Initial Presentation of Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infection. IDWeek National Meeting, 2015.
  • Concomitant Bacterial Meningitis in Infants With Urinary Tract Infection. Thomson J, Cruz A, Nigrovic L, Freedman S, Garro A, Ishimine P, Kulik D, Uspal N, Grether-Jones K, Miller AS, Shah SS, for the PEM-CRC HSV Study Group. Abstract presented at the Pediatric Academic Society National Meeting, May 1st, 2016.
  • HSV in infants <= 60 days presenting for emergency department evaluation. Cruz A, Freedman S, Kulik D, Fleming A, Thomson J, Schnadower D, Garro A, Pruitt C, Balamuth F, Aronson P, Uspal N, Lyons T, Ishimine.