Mr. Alfred E Bacon MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
C78 80 Omega Drive Newark DE, 19713Rating
4/5
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Dr. Alfred Bacon is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Newark, DE. Dr. Bacon 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
Jefferson Med Coll-Thos Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia Pa 1981
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University 1981
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Erythromycin in the treatment of pneumococcal pneumonia.
- Meningoencephalitis due to Cryptococcus neoformans.
- The Delaware Hospital home care program.
- Prevalence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in a random sample of healthy individuals.
- In vitro 24-hour time-kill studies of vancomycin and linezolid in combination versus methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Complete heart block in an adolescent caused by Lyme disease. A common--and reversible--disorder.
- In vitro synergy studies with Clostridium difficile.
- Ciprofloxacin versus ceftazidime in serious infections.
- Emergence of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and therapy of colonized personnel during a hospital-wide outbreak.
- Fatal congestive failure following afebrile illness in a 59-year-old woman.
- A report of the Committee on The Incorporation of Clinical Laboratories.
- Acute idiopathic rhabdomyolysis with myoglobinuria.
- Immunoglobulin G directed against toxins A and B of Clostridium difficile in the general population and patients with antibiotic-associated diarrhea.
- Clostridium difficile infection: a common clinical problem for the general internist.
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7TH AND CLAYTON STS WILMINGTON DE 19805ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENl
1600 ROCKLAND RD PO BOX 269 WILMINGTON DE 19899