Dr. Alan M Sugar M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
317 W Pueblo St Santa Barbara CA, 93105About
Dr. Alan Sugar is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Santa Barbara, CA. Dr. Sugar 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
Jefferson Med Coll-Thos Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia Pa 1977
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- P&T Committee review of fluconazole: an effective alternative to antifungal therapy.
- What's the price of a research subject?
- Prospective multicenter surveillance study of funguria in hospitalized patients. The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Mycoses Study Group.
- Clinical research.
- Combination antifungal therapy in treatment of murine pulmonary mucormycosis: roles of quinolones and azoles.
- Effect of grapefruit juice on serum voriconazole concentrations in the mouse.
- Efficacy of voriconazole in treatment of murine pulmonary blastomycosis.
- Combined treatment: antifungal drugs with antibodies, cytokines or drugs.
- Fluconazole in transplant recipients: options and limitations.
- The crisis in local institutional review boards.
- Overview: antifungal combination therapy.
- Zygomycosis.
- Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia associated with solid ectopic corticotropin-producing tumors.
- Oroesophageal candidiasis.
- Mucormycosis.
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