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Carina Rodriguez, MD

Assoc Professor, College Of Medicine Pediatrics

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Infectious Disease, University of South Florida

Director, Pediatric Tuberculosis Clinic, Hillsborough County Health Department

Division Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of South Fl

Faculty, Pediatrics, Medicine, Florida/Caribbean AETC

Associate Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Medicine, University of South Florida

Education

  • Fellowship, HIV, University of South Florida, 2006
  • Fellowship, Pediatric Infectious Disease, St. Jude Children's Hospital, 2002
  • Residency, Pediatrics, University of South Florida, 2004
  • Residency, Pediatrics, Hospital de ninos R. Gutierrez, 1998
  • Internship, Pediatrics, Hospital de ninos R. Gutierrez, 1994
  • Medical School, Universidad De Buenos Aires, 1993
  • MD, Universidad De Buenos Aires, 1993

Locations

  • Primary Address , 17 Davis Blvd. , Suite 200 Tampa, FL 33606
  • Secondary Address , 800 6th Street South , Childrens Health Center Suite 1 South St. Petersburg, FL 33701
  • USF Academic Address , 17 Davis Blvd. , Suite 200 Tampa, FL 33606
  • Mail Point , MDC Box 15 ,
  • Physical Billing Address , 12901 Bruce B Downs BLVD Tampa, FL 33612

Clinical Interests

  • Infections in immunocompromised host, including post transplantation, HIV, and primary immunodeficiencies
  • Immunizations
  • Pediatric Tuberculosis

Specialties

  • Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases

Memberships

  • Vaccine Committee, IMPAACT (Member, 2009 - Present)
  • Society For Pediatric Research (Member, 2009 - Present)
  • Section on Infectious Disease, American Academy of Pediatrics (Member, 2007 - Present)
  • American Society for Microbiology (Member, 2000 - Present)
  • American Academy of Pediatrics (Member, 1999 - Present)
  • Infectious Disease Society of America (Member, 1999 - Present)
  • Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (Member, 1999 - Present)
  • American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (Member, 2004 - 2006)
  • Sociedad Argentina de Pediatria (Member, 1993 - 1999)

Selected Publications

Chenneville, T.Sibille, K.Lujan-Zilbermann, J.Rodriguez, C.Brown, M.Emmanuel, P.
Medical decisional capacity among children with HIV.
AIDS care. 22(11) : 1359-66, 2010.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20686987

Yin L., Kou Z., Rodriguez, C.A., Hou W., Goodenow M., and Sleasman JW.
Antiretroviral therapy restores diversity in T cell receptor V² repertoire of CD4 T cells subpopulations among HIV-1 infected children and adolescents
Clinical Vaccine Immunology. , 2009.

Yin L*, Rodriguez, C.A.*, Hou W, Potter O, Caplan M, Goodenow M, Sleasman J.W.
Antiretroviral Therapy Corrects HIV-1 Induced Expansion of CD8+CD45RA+CD27+CD11 abright Activated T cells
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 122: 166-172, 2008.

Rodriguez, CA.Koch, S.Goodenow, M.Sleasman, JW.
Clinical implications of discordant viral and immune outcomes following protease inhibitor containing antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected children.
Immunologic research. 40(3) : 271-86, 2008.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17952387

Avandhanula V., Rodriguez, C.A., DeVincenzo J., Portner A., Webby R., Ulett G., Adderson E.I.
Respiratory viruses augment the adhesion of bacterial pathogens to respiratory epithelium in a viral species-an cell type-dependent manner.
Journal of Virology. 80: 1629-1636, 2006.

Avadhanula V., Rodriguez C.A., Ulett G.C., Adderson E.E.
Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae adheres to Intercellular Adhesion Molecule 1 (ICAM-1) on Respiratory Epithelial Cells and Upregulates ICAM-1 Expression.
Infection and Immunity. 74: 830-838, 2006.

Rodriguez, C.A., Atkinson R., Mitchell L., Whitney C.G., Edwards K., Sublett J., Li J., Tiebin L., Hayden R., Chesney, P.J., and Tuomanen E.I.
Tolerance to vancomycin in pneumococci: detection with a molecular marker and assessment of clinical impact.
Journal of Infectious Diseaese. 190: 1481-1487, 2004.

Rodriguez, C.A., Avandhanula V., Busher A., Smith A.L., St Geme III J.W., Adderson E.E.
Prevalence and distribution of adhesin genes in invasive non-type b encapsulated Haemophilus influenzae.
Infection and Immunity. 71: 1635-1642, 2003.