Phillip Peterson

Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, United States of America

Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota; Director, Division of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota; Director, International Medical Education and Research Program, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN.

Research interests:
Our Neuroimmunology Research Laboratory investigates molecular and cellular mechanisms of central nervous system infections caused by viruses (HIV-1, herpes simplex virus, cytomegalovirus, West Nile virus) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis with the aim of translating discoveries into improved treatment and prevention of these infections. Of particular interest to us is the role of microglial cells in the defence of and damage to the brain and how substances of abuse (opiates, cocaine, and cannabinoids) may modify these processes.

Associations:
Society of NeuroImmunePharmacology (president elect); International Immunocompromised Host Society (past president); Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Neurological Disorders > Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System (since 15 November 2005)

Links

http://www.idim.umn.edu

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  The management of encephalitis: clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson with Bryan Rock
  
• 3.2
  Clinical investigation of hospitalized human cases of West Nile virus infection in Houston, Texas, 2002-2004.
  Recommended by Lyle Petersen with James Sejvar, Phillip Peterson with Bryan Rock
  
• 3.0
  Tick-borne encephalitis.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson with Bryan Rock
  
• 3.0
  Seizures in adults with bacterial meningitis.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 3.2
  Risk factors for West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease, California, 2005.
  Recommended by Edward Hayes, Phillip Peterson
  
• 8.5
  Corticosteroids for bacterial meningitis in adults in sub-Saharan Africa.
  Recommended by Hans-Walter Pfister with Uwe Koedel, Phillip Peterson, Patrick Ray, Anthony Harries, Charles Newton with Samson Gwer
  
• 9.0
  Dexamethasone in Vietnamese adolescents and adults with bacterial meningitis.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 3.0
  Herpes simplex encephalitis presenting with exclusively frontal lobe involvement.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 3.0
  The clinical challenge of recognizing infratentorial empyema.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 3.0
  West Nile encephalitis, status epilepticus and West Nile pneumonia in a renal transplant patient.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 6.0
  Community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults: antibiotic timing in disease course and outcome.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 6.0
  Evaluation of a real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for the diagnosis of pneumococcal and meningococcal meningitis in a tertiary care hospital.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 6.0
  Natalizumab treatment for multiple sclerosis: recommendations for patient selection and monitoring.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 3.0
  A 12-year prospective study of childhood herpes simplex encephalitis: is there a broader spectrum of disease?
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 3.0
  Clinical prediction rule for identifying children with cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis at very low risk of bacterial meningitis.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 6.0
  Levels of vancomycin in cerebrospinal fluid of adult patients receiving adjunctive corticosteroids to treat pneumococcal meningitis: a prospective multicenter observational study.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 3.0
  Community-acquired Listeria monocytogenes meningitis in adults.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 3.0
  Epidemiological and molecular characteristics of a highly lethal pneumococcal meningitis epidemic in Burkina Faso.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 3.0
  Long-term clinical and neuropsychological outcomes of West Nile virus infection.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 3.0
  Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in the CNS of HIV-infected patients.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 3.0
  Clinical features in children hospitalized during the 2005 epidemic of Japanese encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh, India.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson
  
• 3.0
  Dexamethasone treatment in adults with pneumococcal meningitis: risk factors for death.
  Recommended by Phillip Peterson