Dr. Clifton Allen Hawkes M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
50 MEDICAL PARK BLVD STE A PETERSBURG VA, 23805About
Dr. Clifton Hawkes is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Hawkes 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
Virginia Commonwealth University / Medical College of Virginia School of Medic 1979
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Factitious halothane detection during trigger-free anesthesia in a malignant hyperthermia susceptible patient.
- Antibiotic resistance: a clinician's perspective.
- Early extubation for adult cardiac surgical patients.
- An outbreak of urticaria among soldiers deploying for combat.
- Varicella zoster virus meningitis complicating sodium stibogluconate treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis.
- Review: cerebral amyloid angiopathy, prion angiopathy, CADASIL and the spectrum of protein elimination failure angiopathies (PEFA) in neurodegenerative disease with a focus on therapy.
- Afferent and efferent immunological pathways of the brain. Anatomy, function and failure.
- Human immunodeficiency virus RNA levels in US adults: a comparison based upon race and ethnicity.
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