Dr. Rafael Leonardo Jurado MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1670 Clairmont Rd 151-P Decatur GA, 30033About
Dr. Rafael Jurado is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Decatur, GA. Dr. Jurado 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
Universidad De Guayaquil MD
Universidad AutÛnoma de Ciudad Ju·rez Instituto de Ciencias BiomÈdicas 1976
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Why shouldn't we determine the erythrocyte sedimentation rate?
- Aspiration pneumonia: a misnomer.
- Cryptococcosis of the larynx in a patient with AIDS: an unusual cause of fungal laryngitis.
- Clinical utility of blood cultures in adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia without defined underlying risks.
- Prozone phenomenon in secondary syphilis. Has its time arrived?
- Dapsone therapy causing sulfone syndrome and lethal hepatic failure in an HIV-infected patient.
- Increased risk of meningitis and bacteremia due to Listeria monocytogenes in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
- Systemic inflammatory response syndrome caused by chronic salicylate intoxication.
- Iron, infections, and anemia of inflammation.
- Infective endocarditis associated with fiberoptic bronchoscopy in a patient with mitral-valve prolapse.
- Low anion gap.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
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