Physicians

Department / Division
Medicine / Medicine-Infectious Diseases

Address
508 Fulton Street, 111-H
Durham, NC 27705

Appointment Telephone
919-668-7630

Fax Telephone
919-479-2948

Training

• MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 1974

Residency

• Medicine, George Washington University Hospital (Washington, DC), 1975-1978
• Infectious Diseases, University of Michigan Medical Center, 1978-1980

Clinical Interests
C. difficile disease, other enteric infections, HIV infection

Research Interests
Dr. Wilson no longer conducts laboratory research, though he works with co-investigators on applications for pyrosequencing in clinical microbiology and on the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile disease.  He is active clinically and has interests in management strategies for HIV infection, treatment of hepatitis-HIV co-infections and effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on medication adherence, well being and immunological function.  He is also interested in the use of contemplative practices in physician development.

Industry Relationships and Collaborations (What's this?)

This physician (or a member of their immediate family) has a working relationship (i.e. consulting, research, and/or educational services) with the companies listed below. These relations have been reported to the health system leadership and, when appropriate, management plans are in place to address potential conflicts.

• Prometheus Laboratories Inc.
• UpToDate, Inc.

Representative Publications
Wilson, K.H., J.S. Ikeda and R.B. Blitchington. Phylogenetic placement of community members in human colonic biota. Clin. Infect. Dis. 25: S114-S116 (1997). (1997)

G.L. Andersen, J.M. Simchock and K.H. Wilson. Identification of a region of genetic variability in Bacillus anthracis strains and related species. J. Bacteriol. 178: 377-384 (1996). (1996)

Wilson, K.H. and R.B. Blitchington. Human colonic biota studied by ribosomal DNA sequence analysis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62: 2273-2278 (1996). (1996)

Anderson, B., J. Dawson, D. Jones and K. Wilson. Ehrlichia chaffeensis sp. nov.: a new species of Ehrlichia associated with human ehrlichiosis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 29: 2838-2842 (1991). (1991)

Wilson, K.H., R. Blitchington, R. Frothingham and J.A.P. Wilson. Phylogeny of the Whipple's disease-associated bacterium. Lancet 338: 474-475 (1991). (1991)

Wilson, K.H., R. Blitchington and R.C. Greene. Amplification of bacterial 16S rRNA sequences with polymerase chain reaction. J. Clin. Microbiol. 28: 1942-1946. (1990). (1990)