Dr. Robert N Longfield MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2303 Se Military Dr San Antonio TX, 78223About
Dr. Robert Longfield is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Longfield 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 Co Sch of Med, Denver Co 1973
University Of Colorado School Of Medicine 1973
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Short report: Treatment failure in Hansen's disease.
- Disseminated infection due to Mycobacterium chelonei.
- Löfgren's syndrome diagnosed as acute rheumatic fever in a military recruit.
- Meningitis and bacteremia due to nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae in adults.
- Clustered bacteremias in a hemodialysis unit: cross-contamination of blood tubing from ultrafiltrate waste.
- Case-control study of armadillo contact and Hansen's disease.
- Coccidioidomycosis and tuberculosis coinfection at a tuberculosis hospital: clinical features and literature review.
- Failure of ceftazidime-amikacin therapy for bacteremia and meningitis due to Klebsiella pneumoniae producing an extended-spectrum beta-lactamase.
- Rapidly progressing cervical cancer in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
- Multiple-dose vials: persistence of bacterial contaminants and infection control implications.
- Sterility of anesthetic multiple-dose vials after opening.
- Campylobacter fetus subsp jejuni bacteremia in diffuse lymphoma.
- Cheiralgia paresthetica after necrotic arachnidism.
- Sarcoidosis and ELISA for Borrelia burgdorferi.
- Septic thrombophlebitis of the portal vein (pylephlebitis): diagnosis and management in the modern era.
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