Dr. Hector F. Gorbea M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1462 C PROF AUGUSTO RODRIGUEZ SAN JUAN PR, 00910About
Dr. Hector Gorbea is an infectious disease specialist practicing in SAN JUAN, PR. Dr. Gorbea 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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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- [Campylobacter fetus enteritis].
- [Therapeutic progress: vancomycin].
- [Infant botulism].
- In vitro susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to 2-acetylpyridine thiosemicarbazones.
- Toxic shock syndrome--pathogenesis.
- Aspiration pneumonia: pathophysiology and treatment.
- Chlamydial pneumonia: a review.
- [Serologic indicators in infection by hepatitis virus type B].
- [Therapeutic progress: tetracyclines].
- Toxoplasmosis serologic survey in Puerto Rico: a study of a normal population and chronic renal patients.
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