Dr. Catherine C Lastavica M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
9 Coolidge Point Manchester MA, 01944About
Dr. Catherine Lastavica is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Manchester, MA. Dr. Lastavica 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.
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Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1958
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1958
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