Dr. Susan E Coffin M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Infectious Diseases
34th & Civic Center Blvd Children's Hospital Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Susan Coffin is a pediatric infectious disease specialist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Coffin 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
Univ of Vt Coll of Med, Burlington Vt 1987
University of Vermont College of Medicine 1987
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Provider Details
Expert Publications
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- Infection due to Moraxella osloensis: case report and review of the literature.
- Outpatient pediatric blood cultures: time to positivity.
- Future vaccines: recent advances and future prospects.
- Nasal-associated lymphoid tissue is a mucosal inductive site for virus-specific humoral and cellular immune responses.
- Induction of intestinal rotavirus-specific antibodies in respiratory, but not gut, lymphoid tissues following mucosal immunization of mice with inactivated rotavirus.
- Influence of bedding type on mucosal immune responses.
- MMR and autism: moving from controversy toward consensus.
- Communicating science to the public: MMR vaccine and autism.
- Regional differences in the early mucosal immune response induced by primary inoculation of mice with respiratory syncytial virus.
- Preevent vaccination against smallpox: a survey of pediatric emergency health care providers.
- Risk factors for disseminated candidiasis in children with candidemia.
- Induction of mucosal B-cell memory by intranasal immunization of mice with respiratory syncytial virus.
- Early differentiation of Lyme from enteroviral meningitis.
- Bronchiolitis: in-patient focus.
Awards
- Philadelphia Super Doctors 2012
Fellowships
- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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