Dr. Michael C Thigpen M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1600 Clifton Rd Ne Mailstop E-45 Atlanta GA, 30333About
Dr. Michael Thigpen is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Thigpen 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
Vanderbilt Univ Sch of Med, Nashville Tn 1997
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Failure of linezolid treatment for enterococcal endocarditis.
- Prevention of human immunodeficiency virus-1 transmission to the infant through breastfeeding: new developments.
- Extended antiretroviral prophylaxis to reduce breast-milk HIV-1 transmission.
- Antiretroviral concentrations in breast-feeding infants of mothers receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy.
- Effect of a point-of-use water treatment and safe water storage intervention on diarrhea in infants of HIV-infected mothers.
- Postnatal HIV-1 transmission after cessation of infant extended antiretroviral prophylaxis and effect of maternal highly active antiretroviral therapy.
- Chlorhexidine maternal-vaginal and neonate body wipes in sepsis and vertical transmission of pathogenic bacteria in South Africa: a randomised, controlled trial.
- HIV-1 drug resistance emergence among breastfeeding infants born to HIV-infected mothers during a single-arm trial of triple-antiretroviral prophylaxis for prevention of mother-to-child transmission: a secondary analysis.
- Pooled individual data analysis of 5 randomized trials of infant nevirapine prophylaxis to prevent breast-milk HIV-1 transmission.
- Antiretroviral preexposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention.
- Bone mineral density changes among HIV-uninfected young adults in a randomised trial of pre-exposure prophylaxis with tenofovir-emtricitabine or placebo in Botswana.
- Increased risk for group B Streptococcus sepsis in young infants exposed to HIV, Soweto, South Africa, 2004-2008(1).
- Kupffer cell stimulation with Corynebacterium parvum reduces some cytochrome P450-dependent activities and diminishes acetaminophen and carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury in the rat.
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