Jerome O. Klein
Jerome O. Klein (* 1931 ) is an American medic.
Klein graduated from Union College in Schenectady with a bachelor's degree in 1952 and a degree (MD) from Yale University School of Medicine in 1956. He completed his specialist training in pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Hospital and was then with the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and at the New York State Department of Health in Albany. In 1961 he went to continue his residency at Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center), where he researched infectious diseases under Maxwell Finland in the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory and became a professor.
He is an expert on otitis media and infections of newborns. He also looked at the pharmacokinetics and effectiveness of antibiotics, mycoplasma , neonatal sepsis, bacteremia in children with fever, vaccines against viruses and bacteria, and the antibacterial effects of onions and garlic.
In 2002 he received the Maxwell Finland Award and in 1995 the Bristol Award .
Fonts
- with Jack S. Remington : Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and Newborn Infants, Saunders, 8th edition 2015
- with Charles Bluestone: Otitis Media in Infants and Children, PMPH, 4th edition 2006
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| SURNAME | Klein, Jerome O. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1931 |