Dr. Adolf W Karchmer M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 330 Brookline Avenue Boston MA, 02215Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Adolf Karchmer is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Karchmer 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1964
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fluoroquinolone treatment of skin and skin structure infections.
- Infections in patients with diabetes mellitus.
- Q fever endocarditis associated with extensive serological cross-reactivity.
- Newer fluoroquinolones and the management of respiratory tract infections.
- Nosocomial bloodstream infections: organisms, risk factors, and implications.
- Adequacy of fellowship training: results of a survey of recently graduated fellows.
- Comparison of mortality associated with methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: a meta-analysis.
- Detection of Staphylococcus aureus in peripheral blood stem cell cultures after sterilization of standard blood cultures.
- Cardiology patient page. Bacterial endocarditis: the disease, treatment, and prevention.
- Epidemiological comparison of true methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteremia at hospital admission.
- Pseudallescheria boydii endocarditis of the pulmonic valve in a liver transplant recipient.
- Fluoroquinolones and the risk for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitalized patients.
- Vancomycin stability in heparin and total parenteral nutrition solutions: novel
- Diagnosis and treatment of diabetic foot infections.
- Increased antibiotic resistance in respiratory tract pathogens: PROTEKT US--an update.
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