Dr. Robert Richard Muder MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
University Drive C Vaphs Infectious Dis Pittsburgh PA, 15240About
Dr. Robert Muder is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Muder 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
Univ of Pittsburgh Sch of Med, Pittsburgh Pa 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Feedback to nursing staff as an intervention to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections.
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the community: a hospital-based study.
- Management of nursing home-acquired pneumonia: unresolved issues and priorities for future investigation.
- Approach to the problem of pneumonia in long-term care facilities.
- Legionnaires' disease in a newly constructed long-term care facility.
- Development of minimum criteria for the initiation of antibiotics in residents of long-term-care facilities: results of a consensus conference.
- Frequency of intravenous administration set changes and bacteremia: defining the risk.
- Prevalence of ceftriaxone- and ceftazidime-resistant gram-negative bacteria in long-term-care facilities.
- Control of an outbreak of infection due to extended-spectrum beta-lactamase--producing Escherichia coli in a liver transplantation unit.
- Determinants of vancomycin resistance and mortality rates in enterococcal bacteremia. a prospective multicenter study.
- Pneumonia in long-term care: a prospective case-control study of risk factors and impact on survival.
- Association between the presence of enterococcal virulence factors gelatinase, hemolysin, and enterococcal surface protein and mortality among patients with bacteremia due to Enterococcus faecalis.
- Staphylococcus aureus rectal carriage and its association with infections in patients in a surgical intensive care unit and a liver transplant unit.
- Molecular epidemiology of endemic ciprofloxacin-susceptible and -resistant Enterobacteriaceae.
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