Dr. Amy B Kressel M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
550 University Blvd Indianapolis IN, 46202About
Dr. Amy Kressel is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Kressel 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
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine 1989
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cryptococcosis in children with AIDS.
- A comprehensive educational approach to improving patient isolation practice.
- Using electronic media to conduct an emergency infection control committee vote.
- Pseudo-outbreak of Mycobacterium chelonae and Methylobacterium mesophilicum caused by contamination of an automated endoscopy washer.
- Surveillance of infectious disease occurrences in the community: an analysis of symptom presentation in the emergency department.
- Construction: a model program for infection control compliance.
- One-day point-prevalence survey of central, arterial, and peripheral line use in adult inpatients.
- Hospitals learn their collective power: an isolation gown success story.
- False-positive Aspergillus galactomannan assay in solid organ transplant recipients with histoplasmosis.
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal real-time PCR: a predictive tool for contamination of the hospital environment.
- Effect of contact precautions for MRSA on patient satisfaction scores.
- Prolonged Rhinovirus Shedding in a Patient with Hodgkin Disease.
- Albino spatial vision as an instance of arrested visual development.
- Analysis of human monoclonal antibodies elicited by vaccination with a Cryptococcus neoformans glucuronoxylomannan capsular polysaccharide vaccine.
- Transmission of hepatitis virus by surgeons.
Treatments
- Mrsa Infection, Travel Medicine
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