Dr. William A Agger MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1836 South Ave La Crosse WI, 54601About
Dr. William Agger is an infectious disease specialist practicing in La Crosse, WI. Dr. Agger 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
Univ of Il Coll of Med, Chicago Il 1972
University of Illinois College of Medicine 1972
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Chronic sternal wound infection and endocarditis with Coxiella burnetii.
- Reassessment of a midwestern Lyme disease focus for Borrelia burgdorferi and the
- Antibiotic resistance: unnatural selection in the office and on the farm.
- In vitro susceptibilities of Borrelia burgdorferi to five oral cephalosporins and ceftriaxone.
- Exophiala jeanselmei infection in a heart transplant recipient successfully treated with oral terbinafine.
- High prevalence of genital mycoplasmas among sexually active young adults with urethritis or cervicitis symptoms in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
- Milkers' nodules complicated by erythema multiforme and graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for multiple myeloma.
- A comparison of two treatment regimens of ceftriaxone in late Lyme disease.
- Tularemia, lawn mowers, and rabbits' nests.
- Art supports new plague science.
- Antibiotic treatment duration and long-term outcomes of patients with early lyme disease from a lyme disease-hyperendemic area.
- Survey for Ixodes spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi in southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois.
- Use of optical mapping to sort uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains into distinct subgroups.
- Pleuropneumonia caused by multiply resistant Haemophilus influenzae type B infection acquired in the United States.
- The effect of residual osteomyelitis at the resection margin in patients with surgically treated diabetic foot infection.
Treatments
- Research
Professional Memberships
- Director of Medical Research Gundersen Medical Foundation
Fellowships
- Infectious Disease Fellowship, , University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI
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