Dr. Rashida A Khakoo M. D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1 Stadium Drive Morgantown WV, 26506About
Dr. Rashida Khakoo is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Morgantown, WV. Dr. Khakoo 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
Makerere Univ, Med Sch, Kampala, Uganda (- Prior /) 1969
University of Florida College of Medicine 1976
Makerere University School of Medicine 1969
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The benefits of telephone-access medical consultation.
- Computerized antimicrobial decision support for hospitalized patients with a bloodstream infection.
- Computerized antimicrobial decision support: an offline evaluation of a database-driven empiric antimicrobial guidance program in hospitalized patients with a bloodstream infection.
- Impact of contact isolation on health care workers at a tertiary care center.
- Association of hemochromatosis with infectious diseases: expanding spectrum.
- Candida endophthalmitis: focus on current and future antifungal treatment options.
- Left knee prosthesis-related Mycobacterium goodii infection.
- Comparison of immune response to the influenza vaccine in obese and nonobese healthcare workers.
- Granulomatous hepatitis in a healthy adult following BCG injection into a plantar wart.
- Granulomatous hepatitis in a healthy adult following BCG injection into a plantar wart.
- Tuberculosis after jejunoileal bypass surgery.
- Failure of computed tomographic scanning to demonstrate subdural empyema.
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