Dr. Wayne Andrew Duffus M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2 Medical Park Rd Suite 502 Columbia SC, 29203About
Dr. Wayne Duffus is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Columbia, SC. Dr. Duffus 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
Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Yeshiva University 1987
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effect of physician specialty on counseling practices and medical referral
- Chronic herpes simplex virus type-2 infection and HIV viral load.
- Epidemiological characterization of individuals with newly reported HIV infection: South Carolina, 2004-2005.
- Brief strengths-based case management promotes entry into HIV medical care: results of the antiretroviral treatment access study-II.
- Patterns of engagement in care by HIV-infected adults: South Carolina, 2004-2006.
- A routine HIV screening program in a South Carolina community health center in an area of low HIV prevalence.
- Indeterminate HIV western blot test result.
- Prevention counseling for HIV-infected persons: what every clinician needs to know.
- Preparing for the unexpected in South Carolina.
- The response to the diagnosis of smallpox (variola) in South Carolina--what every practitioner should know.
- Botulism and its relevance to public health preparedness.
- Pap test and HIV testing behaviors of South Carolina women 18-64 years old.
- Associations of rural residence with timing of HIV diagnosis and stage of disease at diagnosis, South Carolina 2001-2005.
- The impact of retention in early HIV medical care on viro-immunological parameters and survival: a statewide study.
- Transmitted antiretroviral drug resistance in individuals with newly diagnosed HIV infection: South Carolina 2005-2009.
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