Dr. Frank Oliver Richards M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Infectious Diseases
2015 Uppergate Drive Ne Atlanta GA, 30322About
Dr. Frank Richards is a pediatric infectious disease specialist practicing in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Richards specializes in recurring or persistent diseases caused by bacteria, parasites or fungus in infants, children and adolescents. Pediatric infectious disease specialists also provide consultation to other health care professionals dealing with complex cases.
Education and Training
Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medicine Research, Pondicherry University 1979
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Onchocerciasis.
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices during a community-level ivermectin distribution campaign in Guatemala.
- Monetary incentives and community-directed health programmes in some less-developed countries.
- Controlling onchocerciasis by community-directed, ivermectin-treatment programmes in Uganda: why do some communities succeed and others fail?
- In rural Ugandan communities the traditional kinship/clan system is vital to the success and sustainment of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control.
- Community-directed health (CDH) workers enhance the performance and
- The Carter Center's assistance to river blindness control programs: establishing treatment objectives and goals for monitoring ivermectin delivery systems on two continents.
- Control of onchocerciasis today: status and challenges.
- Implementing community-directed treatment with ivermectin for the control of onchocerciasis in Uganda (1997-2000): an evaluation.
- Lymphatic filariasis elimination and schistosomiasis control in combination with onchocerciasis control in Nigeria.
- Adverse reactions after community treatment of onchocerciasis with ivermectin in Guatemala.
- Rapid assessment for lymphatic filariasis in central Nigeria: a comparison of the immunochromatographic card test and hydrocele rates in an area of high endemicity.
- Comparison of wound healing with and without dressings; experimental study.
- Wound healing without dressings; clinical study.
- A plea for early surgery in intestinal obstruction.
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