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Dr. Donald Howard Rubin, M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist
Dr. Donald Rubin is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Nashville, TN. Dr. Rubin specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
50 years
Experience
Dr. Donald Howard Rubin, M.D.
- Nashville, TN
- Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medicine Research, Pondicherry University
- Accepting new patients
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Quarantine before surgery?
No. He should continue doing his safe activities and will require a covid test one or two days prior to surgery. The surgeon should arrange for the test
Does a cold sore mean herpes?
‘Cold sores’ typically are herpes simplex type 1 virus. These are transmitted from an infected individual to a recipient and the virus is activated from a dormant (latent) infection READ MORE
‘Cold sores’ typically are herpes simplex type 1 virus. These are transmitted from an infected individual to a recipient and the virus is activated from a dormant (latent) infection by an insult- for which a viral infection, sun exposure, etc. have been factors. These need to be differentiated from other mouth sores (canker sores). The canker sores are not infectious (transmitted) are not on the lips or skin around the mouth, and are painful but not scarring. The treatment of herpes associated sores can be topical or oral antivirals. These may shorten the infectious period, or given early may inhibit active infection (in persons for whom they have history of recurrent active infection with particular insults).
