Is an infectious disease doctor and pediatric infectious disease doctor the same thing?

Not Quite: This is a doctor, trained as a pediatrician. Then further training was obtained in the area of childhood infections. Thus they are specialists in the area of childhood (pediatric) infections. An infectious disease doctor usually is the same but with training for adults only.Or occasionally for all ages.

No: An infectious disease specialist is a board certified internal medicine physician who completes a 2-3 year adult infectious disease fellowship. A pediatric id specialist is a board certified pediatrician who completes a 2-3 year pediatric id fellowship.

Yes: An infectious disease doctor usually treats only adults and adolescents. However, they may have training for pediatric cases as well. A pediatric infectious disease doctor specifically treats kids. Just ask the infectious disease doctor whether they have training in pediatrics if the patient is a child.

Not exactly: All infectious disease specialists treat all things infectious as the result of bacterial, fungal, vital, or parasitic infection. They may treat children at some point but they also deal with adults. Pediatric infectious disease on the other hand is a sub-specialty of this group that treats only children and the infections specific to this population.