Dr. Tamar F Barlam M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
850 Harrison Ave Yacc Bn-C7 Boston MA, 02118About
Dr. Tamar Barlam is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Barlam 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
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry 1979
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A case of paraspinal abscess and diskitis due to Peptostreptococcus micros.
- Severe gastrointestinal illness associated with olestra ingestion.
- Invasive aspergillosis in patients with AIDS.
- Expedited treatment for partners of patients with gonorrhea and/or chlamydial infection: impact on rates of persistence or recurrence.
- Cytomegalovirus DNA: a common finding in the hearts of patients with fatal myocarditis.
- Antibiotic-stewardship practices at top academic centers throughout the United States and at hospitals throughout Massachusetts.
- Patterns of antimicrobial use for respiratory tract infections in older residents of long-term care facilities.
- Guidance for the knowledge and skills required for antimicrobial stewardship leaders.
- Coagulase-negative staphylococcal bloodstream infections: Does vancomycin remain appropriate empiric therapy?
- The AVMA Task Force for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Companion Animal Practice responds.
- Antibiotic Resistance Spreads Internationally Across Borders.
- Unnecessary Antibiotics for Acute Respiratory Tract Infections: Association With Care Setting and Patient Demographics.
- Ten-year review of Clostridium difficile infection in acute care hospitals in the USA, 2005-2014.
- Pulmonary aspergillosis and invasive disease in AIDS: review of 342 cases.
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