Dr. Lee Robert Brettman MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
183 Greystone Ln Sudbury MA, 01776About
Dr. Lee Brettman is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Sudbury, MA. Dr. Brettman 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
Baylor College of Medicine 1973
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Blood concentrations of alemtuzumab and antiglobulin responses in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia following intravenous or subcutaneous routes of administration.
- Population pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics of alemtuzumab (Campath) in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and its link to treatment response.
- International phase III trial of liprotamase efficacy and safety in pancreatic-insufficient cystic fibrosis patients.
- Liprotamase long-term safety and support of nutritional status in pancreatic-insufficient cystic fibrosis.
- Pathogenesis of urinary tract infections: host susceptibility and bacterial virulence factors.
- Nosocomial infection: risks associated with short-term and long-term inpatient care.
- Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans prosthetic valve endocarditis.
- Recent advances in antimicrobial therapy.
- Hemorrhagic cystitis due to herpes simplex virus as a marker of disseminated herpes infection.
- Legionella bozemanii and empyema.
- Infections in hypothermic patients.
- Pharmacokinetics and safety of single oral doses of VX-366 (isobutyramide) in healthy volunteers.
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