Dr. Christopher Joseph Harrison M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Infectious Diseases
2401 Gillham Rd Kansas City MO, 64108About
Dr. Christopher Harrison is a pediatric infectious disease specialist practicing in Kansas City, MO. Dr. Harrison specializes in recurring or persistent diseases caused by bacteria, parasites or fungus in infants, children and adolescents. Pediatric infectious disease specialists also provide consultation to other health care professionals dealing with complex cases.
Education and Training
University of Kentucky College of Medicine 1971
Board Certification
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Antimicrobial guidelines for the treatment of acute bacterial rhinosinusitis in immunocompetent children.
- Pneumococcal serotypes from acute otitis media in rural Kentucky.
- The laws of acute otitis media.
- Changes in treatment strategies for acute otitis media after full implementation of the pneumococcal seven valent conjugate vaccine.
- Community-wide vaccination with the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate significantly alters the microbiology of acute otitis media.
- A lysine accumulation phenotype of ScIpk2Delta mutant yeast is rescued by Solanum tuberosum inositol phosphate multikinase.
- Tuberculous colitis mimicking Crohn disease.
- A Solanum tuberosum inositol phosphate kinase (StITPK1) displaying inositol phosphate-inositol phosphate and inositol phosphate-ADP phosphotransferase activities.
- Cephalosporins: a review.
- Susceptibilities of Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, including serotype 19A, and Moraxella catarrhalis paediatric isolates from 2005 to 2007 to commonly used antibiotics.
- Past, present, and future: an overview of the microbiology of acute otitis media.
- Human parechovirus 3 causing sepsis-like illness in children from midwestern United States.
- Why we should eliminate personal belief exemptions to vaccine mandates.
- Hyperacute infectious keratitis with Plesiomonas shigelloides following traumatic lamellar corneal laceration.
- Human cytomegalovirus induces TLR4 signaling components in monocytes altering TIRAP, TRAM and downstream interferon-beta and TNF-alpha expression.
Treatments
- Antimicrobials, Ear Infection, Vaccinations
Fellowships
- PEDIATRICS FELLOWSHIP, OKLAHOMA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 1967
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Oklahoma Children's Memorial Hospital, Oklahoma City, OK Pediatric
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