Dr. Luther Valentine Rhodes MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1210 S Cedar Crest Blvd Suite 2700 Allentown PA, 18103Rating
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About
Dr. Luther Rhodes is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Allentown, PA. Dr. Rhodes 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
Loyola Univ of Chicago Stritch Sch of Med, Maywood Il 1970
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Impact of human immunodeficiency virus on medical and surgical residents.
- Regulation of triple-negative breast cancer cell metastasis by the tumor-suppressor liver kinase B1.
- Diagnostic specificity of immunoglobulin M (IgM) response in differentiation Legionnaires' disease from psittacosis.
- Diagnostic specificity of immunoglobulin M (IgM) response in differentiation Legionnaires' disease from psittacosis.
- Legionnaires' disease. Clinical findings and one-year follow-up.
- Isolation of Legionella pneumophila from clinical specimens: salutary effects of lung tissue dilution.
- Reduction of catheter-induced infections.
- Nosocomial herpes simplex virus infection associated with oral endotracheal intubation.
- Legionnaires' serotypes.
- Legionnaires' serotypes.
- Psittacosis or legionnaires' disease?
- Psittacosis or legionnaires' disease?
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