Dr. Dimitri Maximilian Drekonja MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
One Veterans Drive Minneapolis MN, 55417About
Dr. Dimitri Drekonja is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Drekonja 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 2002
University of Mn Med Sch 2002
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Urinary tract infections.
- Noninferiority of linezolid for skin and bloodstream infections.
- Internet survey of Foley catheter practices and knowledge among Minnesota nurses.
- Appropriateness of urinary tract infection diagnosis and treatment duration.
- Foley catheter practices and knowledge among Minnesota physicians.
- Rifampin plus metronidazole for Clostridium difficile infection.
- Vancomycin "telephone".
- Tigecycline treatment for urinary tract infections: case report and literature review.
- Metronidazole therapy to prevent clostridium difficile infection.
- Urinary tract infection in male veterans: treatment patterns and outcomes.
- Preoperative urine cultures at a veterans affairs medical center.
- Unnecessary antimicrobial use in patients with current or recent Clostridium difficile infection.
- Time to redefine the duration of antimicrobial treatment in male patients with urinary infections--reply.
- Erysipelothrix bacteremia without endocarditis: rare event or under-reported occurrence?
- Urine cultures among hospitalized veterans: casting too broad a net?
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