Dr. Allan R Tunkel M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
164 SUMMIT AVE PROVIDENCE RI, 02906About
Dr. Allan Tunkel is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Long Branch, NJ. Dr. Tunkel 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.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Antibacterial agents in infections of the central nervous system.
- Meningococcal vaccines: a progress report.
- Corticosteroids for everyone with meningitis?
- Azithromycin and clarithromycin: overview and comparison with erythromycin.
- Antimicrobial agents in the treatment of bacterial meningitis.
- Endocarditis with negative blood cultures.
- Dexamethasone for Treatment of Tuberculous Meningitis in Adolescents and Adults.
- Use of ceftriaxone during epidemics in patients with suspected meningococcal meningitis.
- Cerebrospinal fluid penetration of vancomycin in adults receiving adjunctive dexamethasone.
- Cerebellar ataxia following prolonged use of metronidazole: case report and literature review.
- Therapy of bacterial meningitis in children.
- Adjunctive corticosteroids for adults in Vietnam with bacterial meningitis.
- Adjunctive corticosteroids for adults in sub-Saharan Africa with bacterial meningitis.
- Vaccination for the prevention of pneumococcal meningitis.
- Strategies and new developments in the management of bacterial meningitis.
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