Dr. Louis B Polish MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
111 Colchester Ave Smith 274 Burlington VT, 05401About
Dr. Louis Polish is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Burlington, VT. Dr. Polish 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.
Education and Training
University of Vermont College of Medicine 1981
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Excretion of hepatitis A virus (HAV) in adults: comparison of immunologic and molecular detection methods and relationship between HAV positivity and infectivity in tamarins.
- Enterobacter cloacae ventriculitis successfully treated with cefepime and gentamicin: case report and review of the literature.
- Risk factors for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteremia in oncology patients: a case-control study.
- Stenotrophomonas maltophilia intestinal colonization in hospitalized oncology patients with diarrhea.
- The impact of bedside behavior on catheter-related bacteremia in the intensive care unit.
- Acute meningoencephalitis caused by adenovirus serotype 26.
- Characterization of risk factors for Helicobacter pylori infection among men attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic: lack of evidence for sexual transmission.
- Hepatitis E in a U.S. traveler to Mexico.
- Pulmonary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in AIDS.
- Transvenous biopsy diagnosis of cardiac lymphoma in an AIDS patient.
- Digitoxin-quinidine interaction: potentiation during administration of cimetidine.
- Enterococci resistant to multiple antimicrobial agents, including vancomycin. Establishment of endemicity in a university medical center.
- Impact of the bloodborne pathogens standard on vaccination of healthcare workers with hepatitis B vaccine.
- Results of screening for tuberculosis in foreign-born persons applying for adjustment of immigration status.
- Hepatitis C virus infection among patients attending a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases.
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