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Justin Idle

Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease

Dr. Justin Idle is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Nashville, TN. Dr. Idle 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.
Justin Idle
  • Nashville, TN
  • Accepting new patients

Can you catch pneumonia from another person?

Pneumonia is the result of another medical condition or infection so it is not directly contagious, but the underlying cause, bacterial or viral most likely is contagious. I would READ MORE
Pneumonia is the result of another medical condition or infection so it is not directly contagious, but the underlying cause, bacterial or viral most likely is contagious. I would recommend using precautions to avoid and fluid contact with an infected person.

Stay safe,

Justin Idle M.D/P.h.D pending 2019