Dr. Joseph R Thurn MD,MPH
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Minneapolis Va Medical Center 1 Veterans Drive Minneapolis MN, 55417About
Dr. Joseph Thurn is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Thurn 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 Mn Med Sch-Minneapolis, Minneapolis Mn 1983
University of Mn Med Sch 1983
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and mucosal humoral defense.
- Pseudomembranous colitis after itraconazole therapy.
- Molecular analysis of a hospital cafeteria-associated salmonellosis outbreak using modified repetitive element PCR fingerprinting.
- Mucosal plasma cell repertoire during HIV-1 infection.
- Recommendations from a Minnesota task force for the management of persons with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- HIV worldwide. What has happened? What has changed?
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Minnesota nursing homes.
- Septic shock. Evaluation of a life-threatening condition.
- Decreased mutation frequencies among immunoglobulin G variable region genes during viremic HIV-1 infection.
- Influenza A pneumonitis in a patient infected with the human immunodeficiency
- Nursing home-acquired pneumonia.
- Experience with central venous catheters in patients with AIDS.
- Zidovudine-associated myopathy.
- Educating patients about HIV.
- AIDS. Treatment strategies and the Minnesota AIDS Clinical Trials Unit.
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