The Department of Infectious Diseases was founded in 1950 by two famous infectious disease specialists Prof. Yang Chaoqian and Prof. Wang Xinhe. It is a national key clinical specialty, a national key discipline(cultivation), a key discipline of Hubei Province, a national new drug clinical research base (antibiotics and antivirals), a clinical training base for specialist physicians of the Ministry of Health, the Master’s and Doctoral degree awarding spots, and the postdoctoral research station.

Gathering many well-known infectious disease experts, the Department of Infectious Diseases providing medical service for more than 3100 inpatients and more than 82000 outpatients each year. The Department of Infectious Diseases works to prevent, to diagnose, and to treat:

1) Acute or chronic hepatitis caused by hepatitis A-E etc.

2) Cirrhosis and its complications

3) Critical liver diseases including liver failure

4) Infectious diseases popular in the past and now occasionally seen in central China: typhoid fever, dysentery, schistosomiasis, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) etc.

5) New emerging infectious diseases: fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS), brucellosis etc.

6) Imported infectious diseases: Dengue fever, malaria, etc.

7) Antibiotic use consultation

8) Fever of unknown origin

9) Unexplained jaundice

10) Unexplained abnormal liver function

11) Complicated and/or drug-resistant bacterial and fungal infections

The Department of Infectious Diseases has always attached importance to the combination of scientific research and clinical practice, to the domestic and international cooperation and exchanges, and has been at the leading domestic and internationally renowned level in the fields of viral hepatitis, SFTS, cirrhosis, HFRS and schistosomiasis. In recent years, it has received more than 40 projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Science and Technology Major Project for Infectious Diseases of China, International Cooperation and Exchange Special Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Sino-German Interdisciplinary Major Cooperative Research Projects etc. These results more than 100 high quality research papers in the top international journals including Nature Communication, Hepatology, Journal of Virology etc., and more than 20 Science and Technology Progress awards including 1 first prize from the Ministry of Health and 1 first prizes from Hubei province.

The Department of Infectious Diseases is a domestic first-class and internationally renowned clinical, teaching, research and training center of Infectious Diseases, which consists of the Infectious Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center with 5 wards including an ICU ward with a total of 159 beds and 2 outpatient departments, the Artificial Liver Center, and the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Immunology. There are currently 104 employees in the Department of Infectious Diseases, including 11 professors, 12 associate professors, 7 doctoral tutors, and 10 master tutors. Prof. Xin Zheng is the director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, and is the president of the Infectious Diseases Branch of Hubei Medical Association. Prof. Dongliang Yang is the professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases, the standing Committee Member of the Chinese Medical Association Hepatology Branch, and the editor-in-chief of the infectious disease textbook for eight-year program students. The Department of Infectious Diseases has trained 70 doctoral students and 139 postgraduates. It receives more than 140 standardized training residents every year.