Dr. Joseph Richard Lentino MD, PHD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2222 W Division St Suite 205 Chicago IL, 60622About
Dr. Joseph Lentino is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Chicago, IL. Dr. Lentino 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Adjunctive antibiotic/anticoagulant lock therapy in the treatment of bacteremia associated with the use of a subcutaneously implanted hemodialysis access device.
- Association between initial empirical therapy and decreased length of stay among veteran patients hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia.
- Paecilomyces peritonitis: case report and review of the literature.
- Prosthetic joint infections: bane of orthopedists, challenge for infectious disease specialists.
- Intravenous fleroxacin versus ceftazidime for lower respiratory tract and skin and soft-tissue infections.
- Infections Associated with Prosthetic Knee and Prosthetic Hip.
- The effectiveness and safety of oral linezolid for the primary and secondary treatment of osteomyelitis.
- HIV infection in drug abusers: research implications of descriptive studies.
- Low prevalence of sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus in sex partners of seropositive intravenous drug users.
- Nonvalue of sputum culture in the management of lower respiratory tract infections.
- Comparison of in vitro activity of daptomycin, vancomycin and fluoroquinolones in broth and serum against Staphylococcus epidermidis as determined by time-kill kinetics.
- Influenza A among hospital personnel and patients. Implications for recognition, prevention, and control.
- In-vitro and in-vivo studies of trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole against multiple resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Computed axial tomography in the early diagnosis of prostatic abscess.
- High-dose moxalactam in gram-negative pneumonia: efficacy and safety.
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