Dr. Donald Paul Levine MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
50 E Canfield General Medicine Amb Detroit MI, 48201About
Dr. Donald Levine is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Detroit, MI. Dr. Levine 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
Wayne State Univ Sch of Med, Detroit Mi 1972
Wayne State University School of Medicine 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Infective endocarditis in the injection drug user.
- Clinafloxacin for the treatment of bacterial endocarditis.
- Vancomycin: a history.
- Impact of empirical-therapy selection on outcomes of intravenous drug users with infective endocarditis caused by methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus.
- Phase II, randomized, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a polyclonal anti-Staphylococcus aureus capsular polysaccharide immune globulin in treatment of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.
- Daptomycin in the treatment of patients with infective endocarditis: experience from a registry.
- Emergence of coagulase-negative staphylococci as a cause of native valve endocarditis.
- Vancomycin: understanding its past and preserving its future.
- Clinical experience with daptomycin: bacteraemia and endocarditis.
- Therapeutic monitoring of vancomycin in adult patients: a consensus review of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists.
- Prevention of catheter-related infection: evidence-based medicine.
- Vancomycin therapeutic guidelines: a summary of consensus recommendations from the infectious diseases Society of America, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists.
- Therapeutic monitoring of vancomycin in adults summary of consensus recommendations from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists.
- Outcome of patients with injection drug use-associated endocarditis admitted to an intensive care unit.
- Daptomycin: pharmacology and clinical use.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Pancreatitis
- Chronic Pain
- Hepatitis
- Back Pain
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Deep Vein Thrombosis (dvt)
- Hepatitis C
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
- Permanent Removal Of Ingrown Toenails
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