Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University

Pediatric Infectious Disease

Dr. John C. Christenson, MD

John Christenson practices Pediatric Infectious Disease. He studied medicine at University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. He received awards:"America's Top Doctors" and "Indianapolis Monthly". John Christenson is a published MD. He published 45 publications, including: 'Detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci colonization in a children's hospital.'

Publications

Decolonization of Children After Incision and Drainage for MRSA Abscess: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
Preparing Children for International Travel: Need for Training and Pediatric-Focused Research.
Influenza and parainfluenza viral infections in children.
Salmonella infections.
Travel-related infections in children.
Rotavirus.
Fluorosis Because of Prolonged Voriconazole Therapy in a Teenager With Acute Myelogenous Leukemia.
Ileocecal histoplasmosis simulating Crohn disease in a patient with hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome.
Latent tuberculosis infection in children: a call for revised treatment guidelines.
Preparing families with children traveling to developing countries.
Tularemia with vesicular skin lesions may be mistaken for infection with herpes viruses.
Preparing children for travel to tropical and developing regions.
Serious bacterial infections in febrile infants 1 to 90 days old with and without viral infections.
Pediatric intensive care unit nosocomial infections: epidemiology, sources and solutions.
The effect of rapid respiratory viral diagnostic testing on antibiotic use in a children's hospital.
Cerebral aneurysms in a child with acquired immune deficiency syndrome during rapid immune reconstitution.
An epidemiological investigation of a sustained high rate of pediatric parapneumonic empyema: risk factors and microbiological associations.
Measles and the risk posed by international travelers at the time of elimination or post-elimination.
Influenza-associated rhabdomyolysis in a child.
Aerosolized ribavirin treatment of respiratory syncytial virus infection in infants hospitalized during an epidemic.
Recovery of Pseudomonas gladioli from respiratory tract specimens of patients with cystic fibrosis.
Tsukamurella paurometabolum: a novel pathogen causing catheter-related bacteremia in patients with cancer.
Pseudoinfection due to Tsukamurella paurometabolum.
Group A streptococcal salpingitis in a prepubertal girl.
Comparative efficacy and safety of cefprozil (BMY-28100) and cefaclor in the treatment of acute group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis.
Comparative efficacy and safety of cefprozil and cefaclor in the treatment of acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections.
Proper use of the clinical microbiology laboratory.
Synergistic action of amphotericin B and rifampin against Rhizopus species.
Development and impact of a computerized pediatric antiinfective decision support program.
Clinicians' response to computerized detection of infections.
Candida lusitaniae: an emerging human pathogen.
Intravenous ribavirin for hantavirus pulmonary syndrome: safety and tolerance during 1 year of open-label experience. Ribavirin Study Group.
Growth failure, intracranial calcifications, acquired pancytopenia, and unusual humoral immunodeficiency: a genetic syndrome?
Ochrobactrum anthropi meningitis in pediatric pericardial allograft transplant recipients.
In vitro activity of meropenem, imipenem, cefepime and ceftazidime against Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from cystic fibrosis patients.
Discriminators between hantavirus-infected and -uninfected persons enrolled in a trial of intravenous ribavirin for presumptive hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
Nosocomial mumps: report of an outbreak and its control.
Computerized detection of nosocomial infections in newborns.
Detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci colonization in a children's hospital.
Invasive serotype a Haemophilus influenzae infections with a virulence genotype resembling Haemophilus influenzae type b: emerging pathogen in the vaccine era?
Pediatric travel consultation in an integrated clinic.
Meningitis due to Ochrobactrum anthropi: an emerging nosocomial pathogen. A report of 3 cases.
Bacillus cereus infections among oncology patients at a children's hospital.
Preparing children for international travel.

Schools

Indiana University School of Medicine
University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus
University Ped Hospital
Okla Chldns Meml Hospital

Conditions Treated

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Bipolar Disorder

Doctors Specialties

Pediatric Infectious Disease Medicine
Pediatric Infectious Disease

Accepted Insurances

Awards

America's Top Doctors
Indianapolis Monthly

Education

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
University of Puerto Rico
University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

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