Ana M. Alvarez M.D.

Associate Professor

Department: Department of Pediatrics

Business Phone: (904) 244-7226

Business Email: ana.alvarez@jax.ufl.edu

Appointments and Locations

Board Certifications

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Clinical Profile

Specialties

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Interests

Clinical Special Interests: Tuberculosis; Immunology; HIV/AIDS
Research Special Interests: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis

Languages

Speaks English and Spanish

Publications

2025

Update in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Tuberculosis in Children.

Pediatrics in review.46(3):148-158[DOI] 10.1542/pir.2024-006539.[PMID] 40020731.

PubMed·Publisher's Site

2023

Report of Haemophilus Influenzae serotype a intracranial infections in older children.

Pediatric investigation.7(2):132-136[DOI] 10.1002/ped4.12369.[PMID] 37324595.

1 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site

2023

Traveling Does More Than Widen One's Horizon: Travel History as Key to Diagnosing Blastomycosis.

Cureus.15(5):e38551-[DOI] 10.7759/cureus.38551.[PMID] 37288195.

1 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site

2022

Charge Nurses Taking Charge, Challenging the Culture of Culture-Negative Sepsis, and Preventing Central-Line Infections to Reduce NICU Antibiotic Usage.

American journal of perinatology.39(8):861-868[DOI] 10.1055/s-0040-1719079.[PMID] 33142341.

3 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site

2020

Essential Components of a Public Health Tuberculosis Prevention, Control, and Elimination Program: Recommendations of the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis and the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association

MMWR. Recommendations and Reports.69(7):1-27[DOI] 10.15585/mmwr.rr6907a1.[PMID] 32730235.

28 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site

2019

Clostridium difficile Infection in Children.

Advances in pediatrics.66():263-280[DOI] 10.1016/j.yapd.2019.03.010.[PMID] 31230698.

8 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site

2018

Pediatric tuberculosis consultations across 5 CDC regional tuberculosis training and medical consultation Centers.

Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases.11():23-27[DOI] 10.1016/j.jctube.2018.04.004.[PMID] 31720388.

2 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site

2014

Endocarditis.

Pediatrics in review.35(4):162-7; quiz 168[DOI] 10.1542/pir.35-4-162.[PMID] 24692156.

8 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site

2012

Immunogenicity, immunologic memory, and safety following measles revaccination in HIV-infected children receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy.

The Journal of infectious diseases.206(4):512-22[DOI] 10.1093/infdis/jis386.[PMID] 22693229.

34 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site

2007

Hot Topics in Pediatric HIV/AIDS

Pediatric Annals.36(7):423-432[DOI] 10.3928/0090-4481-20070701-10.[PMID] .

PubMed·Publisher's Site

2003

Impact of Protease Inhibitor Substitution With Efavirenz in HIV-Infected Children: Results of the First Pediatric Switch Study

Pediatrics.111(3):e275-e281[DOI] 10.1542/peds.111.3.e275.[PMID] .

PubMed·Publisher's Site

2002

Higher occurrence of hepatotoxicity and rash in patients treated with oxacillin, compared with those treated with nafcillin and other commonly used antimicrobials.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.34(1):50-4[DOI] .[PMID] 11731945.

29 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site

2001

Complications of outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy in childhood.

The Pediatric infectious disease journal.20(5):541-3[DOI] .[PMID] 11368116.

57 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site

1999

Usefulness of acute phase reactants in the diagnosis of acute infections in HIV-infected children.

Southern medical journal.92(2):209-13[DOI] .[PMID] 10071669.

9 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site

1995

Lemierre's syndrome in adolescent children--anaerobic sepsis with internal jugular vein thrombophlebitis following pharyngitis.