Dr. Catherine Frances Decker M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
National Naval Medical Ctr 8901 Wisconsin Ave Bethesda MD, 20889About
Dr. Catherine Decker is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Decker 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
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Defending against viruses in biowarfare. How to respond to smallpox, encephalitides, hemorrhagic fevers.
- Cardiac dysrhythmia following smallpox vaccination.
- Plague.
- Symptomatic hyperlactataemia precipitated by the addition of tetracycline to combination antiretroviral therapy.
- Introduction, epidemiology and classification.
- Tuberculosis and HIV infection.
- Treatment of tuberculosis.
- Tuberculosis and infection control measures.
- Osteonecrosis in HIV-infected persons: radiographic findings delay clinical diagnosis.
- Effect of hemoglobinopathies on hemoglobin A1c measurements.
- Unusual case of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia during primary HIV infection.
- Nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor use, cirrhosis, and end-stage liver disease in HIV-infected patients.
- MRSA: an evolving pathogen.
- The changing epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Health care-associated MRSA versus community-associated MRSA.
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