Department / Division:
Medicine / Infectious Diseases

Address:
Durham VA Medical Center
508 Fulton Street, 111-H
Durham, NC 27705

Appointment Telephone:
919-668-7630

Fax Telephone:
919-479-2948

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

• Medicine, George Washington University (Washington, DC), 1975-1978
• Infectious Diseases, University of Michigan, 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.

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)

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

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

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