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Peter Axelrod, MD

Peter Axelrod
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  • Professor, Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
  • Chair, Infection Control Committees of Temple University Hospital and Fox Chase Cancer Center
  • Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Specialties

Infectious Diseases

Distinctions
2026 Top Doctors by Philadelphia magazine
About Me
Publications
About Me
Clinical Interests
  • Nosocomial infections
  • Device-related infections
  • Infections in patients with cancer
  • Fever: infectious and non-infectious
Education
  • MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Training
  • Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  • Residency, Internal Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Board Certifications
  • American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine
  • American Board of Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease
Memberships
  • Infectious Diseases Society of America
  • Society for Health Care Epidemiology of America
  • Association of Professionals in Infection Control American Society for Microbiology
Awards and Honors
  • Top Doctors, Infectious Disease, Philadelphia magazine, 2023-2026
Offices

Office Locations

Temple Infectious Diseases

3401 N. Broad St.

Rock Pavilion Basement, Zone A, Suite A050

Philadelphia, PA 19140

Phone: 800-836-7536

Publications
Digital Bibliography
Publications

A case-case-control study of patients with carbapenem-resistant and third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections. Gallagher, J. C.,Kuriakose, S.,Haynes, K.,Axelrod, P.; Antimicrob. Agents Chemother.. 2014 Jul 16.

Longitudinal epidemiology of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter species in a tertiary care hospital. Baang, J. H.,Axelrod, P.,Decker, B. K.,Hujer, A. M.,Dash, G.,Truant, A. R.,Bonomo, R. A.,Fekete, T.; Am J Infect Control. 2012 Mar.