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Dr. Joseph Benjamin Cantey M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Infectious Diseases
1845 S Dobson Rd Suite 211 Mesa AZ, 85202About
Dr. Joseph Cantey is a pediatric infectious disease specialist practicing in Mesa, AZ. Dr. Cantey 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.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A flu-like illness.
- Discordance between Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization and skin infections in children.
- Viridans streptococcal meningitis following penetrating cervical injury.
- A persistently fussy, febrile infant.
- Smallpox variolation during the revolutionary war.
- Prolonged antibiotic therapy for "culture-negative" sepsis in preterm infants: it's time to stop!
- Use of blood polymerase chain reaction testing for diagnosis of herpes simplex virus infection.
- Neonatal herpes simplex virus infections: past progress and future challenges.
- Brain magnetic resonance imaging of infants with bacterial meningitis.
- Antimicrobial stewardship in the NICU.
- Prospective surveillance of antibiotic use in the neonatal intensive care unit: results from the SCOUT study.
- Lack of clinical utility of urine gram stain for suspected urinary tract infection in pediatric patients.
- Herpes Simplex Virus DNAemia Preceding Neonatal Disease.
- Empiric Antibiotics for Serious Bacterial Infection in Young Infants: Opportunities for Stewardship.
- The mortality of neonatal herpes simplex virus infection.
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