Dr. Edwin J. Asturias MD
Infectious Disease Specialist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Infectious Diseases
13123 E 16th Ave Aurora CO, 80045About
Dr. Edwin Asturias is a pediatric infectious disease specialist practicing in Aurora, CO. Dr. Asturias 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 Colorado School Of Medicine
Faculdade Presidente Antonio Carlos (FAPAC) 1989
Universidad de San Carlos Facultad de Ciencias MÈdicas 2010
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Meningitis and pneumonia in Guatemalan children: the importance of Haemophilus influenzae type b and Streptococcus pneumoniae.
- Poliovirus excretion in Guatemalan adults and children with HIV infection and children with cancer.
- Randomized trial of inactivated and live polio vaccine schedules in Guatemalan infants.
- Increasing penicillin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole resistance in nasopharyngeal Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from Guatemalan children, 2001--2006.
- Culture- and antigen-negative meningitis in Guatemalan children.
- Differences in the immune response to hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccines in Guatemalan infants by ethnic group and nutritional status.
- A fully liquid DTPw-HepB-Hib combination vaccine for booster vaccination of toddlers in El Salvador.
- Evaluation of six risk factors for the development of bacteremia in children with cancer and febrile neutropenia.
- Procalcitonin: a marker of infection not subverted by treatment with interleukin-6 receptor inhibition.
- Assessment of causality of individual adverse events following immunization (AEFI): a WHO tool for global use.
- Post-authorization safety surveillance of a liquid pentavalent vaccine in Guatemalan children.
- Multicentric Castleman disease presenting with fever.
- Impaired haemophilus influenzae type b transplacental antibody transmission and
- Women scientist and the will to prevent Hib disease.
- Analysis of the pediatric health information system database as a surveillance tool for travel-associated infectious diseases.
Treatments
- Fever
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