Dr. Gerald R. Donowitz M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Uva Primary Care Center Lee Street Charlottesville VA, 22903About
Dr. Gerald Donowitz is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Donowitz 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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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ciprofloxacin plus piperacillin compared with tobramycin plus piperacillin as empirical therapy in febrile neutropenic patients. A randomized, double-blind trial.
- Triad of acute infusion-related reactions associated with liposomal amphotericin B: analysis of clinical and epidemiological characteristics.
- Commentary: are care guidelines useful in community-acquired pneumonia? Value hinges on improving outcomes.
- Candidal endophthalmitis after lithotripsy of renal calculi.
- Community-acquired pneumonia: how far have we come?
- Bacterial community-acquired pneumonia in older patients.
- Outpatient management of febrile neutropenia: concerns for the future.
- The role of the chest roentgenogram in febrile neutropenic patients.
- Ingestion of Legionella micdadei inhibits human neutrophil function.
- Cunninghamella bertholletiae: an unusual agent of zygomycosis.
- Community-acquired pneumonia: 2012 history, mythology, and science.
- Polymorphonuclear neutrophils: an effective antimicrobial force.
- Third generation cephalosporins.
- Beta-Lactam antibiotics (1).
- Drug therapy. Beta-lactam antibiotics (2).
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