Dr. Richard W Douce MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
122 Grant St Niles MI, 49120About
Dr. Richard Douce is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Niles, MI. Dr. Douce 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- Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in two clinics in Ecuador.
- The Department of Defense laboratory-based global influenza surveillance system.
- Investigation of an outbreak of central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infection due to contaminated water.
- A case of yellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic disease in Ecuador.
- Sentinel surveillance of influenza-like-illness in two cities of the tropical country of Ecuador: 2006-2010.
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