Dr. Amy Yomiko Vittor MD, PHD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3400 Spruce St 3 Silverstein, Suite Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Amy Vittor is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Vittor 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effects of environmental change on emerging parasitic diseases.
- Eastern equine encephalitis in Latin America.
- Conservation efforts and malaria in the Brazilian Amazon.
- Seroprevalence of Infections with Dengue, Rift Valley Fever and Chikungunya Viruses in Kenya, 2007.
- Serologic Evidence of the Geographic Distribution of Bacterial Zoonotic Agents in Kenya, 2007.
- Epidemiology of Emergent Madariaga Encephalitis in a Region with Endemic Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis: Initial Host Studies and Human Cross-Sectional Study in Darien, Panama.
Treatments
- Infections
- Tuberculosis
Fellowships
- University Of Pennsylvania Infectious Disease
- University of Texas Medical Branch
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