
Dr. Leonard V Sacks MB.B.CH
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Veterans Affairs Medical Ctr 50 Irving St Nw Washington DC, 20422About
Dr. Leonard Sacks is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Sacks 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 The Witwatersrand- Med Sch- Johannesburg- So Africa 1979
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A comparison of outbreak- and nonoutbreak-related multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in a South African hospital.
- Adjunctive salvage therapy with inhaled aminoglycosides for patients with persistent smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis.
- Use of ciprofloxacin for successful eradication of bacteremia due to Campylobacter cinaedi in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected person.
- Randomized trials to optimize treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
- Developing new drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: a regulatory perspective.
- Challenges, successes and hopes in the development of novel TB therapeutics.
- Cysticercosis in an urban black South African community: prevalence and risk factors.
- Strain diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- Pancytopenia in a patient with Cryptococcus meningitis.
- Factors related to in-hospital deaths in patients with tuberculosis.
- Primary HIV infection diagnosed in South Africa masquerading as another tropical disease.
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