Dr. Edward Kurt Chapnick M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4802 10th Ave Maimonides Medical C Brooklyn NY, 11219About
Dr. Edward Chapnick is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Chapnick 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
Suny-Hlth Sci Ctr At Brooklyn, Coll of Med, Brooklyn Ny 1985
SUNY Downstate Medical Center College Of Medicine 1985
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine 1985
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Conjugated polysaccharide vaccines.
- Bacitracin versus mupirocin for Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization.
- Late prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus hemolyticus.
- Post traumatic polymicrobial endophthalmitis, including Neisseria subflava.
- Zidovudine-induced hepatitis.
- Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospital nursery and maternity units.
- Parenteral polymyxin B use in patients with multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteremia and urinary tract infections: a retrospective case series.
- Endocapsular cellulomonas as a cause of persistent postoperative endophthalmitis.
- Octreotide-induced acute pancreatitis in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
- Fluconazole induced toxic epidermal necrolysis: a case report.
- Endogenous fungal endophthalmitis after cardiac surgery.
- Antibody response to inactivated influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent vaccine in patients with and without HIV.
- Pneumothorax in a young man in Brooklyn, New York.
- Physicians' attitudes towards self-treatment of latent tuberculosis.
- Microorganism contamination of mezuzahs in a tertiary care hospital in Brooklyn, New York City.
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