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Dr. Ludwig A Lettau M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1938 Charlie Hall Blvd Charleston SC, 29414About
Dr. Ludwig Lettau is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Charleston, SC. Dr. Lettau 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
Univ of Wi Med Sch, Madison Wi 1973
New Jersey College of Dentistry 1973
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Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The language of infectious disease: a light-hearted review.
- Antibiotic-use screening evaluations (ABUSE) for physicians and patients: featuring prizes and penalties for physicians.
- Teicoplanin in the treatment of bone and joint infections. Teicoplanin Bone and Joint Cooperative Study Group, USA.
- Typhlitis and HIV.
- Universal precautions studios presents: ID creature features.
- Human immunodeficiency virus testing experience and hepatitis B vaccination and testing status of healthcare workers in South Carolina: implications for compliance with US Public Health Service guidelines.
- The A, B, C, D, and E of viral hepatitis: spelling out the risks for healthcare workers.
- Nosocomial transmission and infection control aspects of parasitic and ectoparasitic diseases. Part II. Blood and tissue parasites.
- Nosocomial transmission and infection control aspects of parasitic and ectoparasitic diseases: Part I. Introduction/enteric parasites.
- Nosocomial transmission and infection control aspects of parasitic and ectoparasitic diseases. Part III. Ectoparasites/summary and conclusions.
- Sleep, depression and suicide.
- Acute hepatitis B following gynaecological surgery.
- Oral fluoroquinolone therapy in Clostridium difficile enterocolitis.
- Transmission of HBV from dental personnel to patients.
- Transmission of hepatitis B with resultant restriction of surgical practice.
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Nearby Providers
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- Dr. Randall D. Marosok M.D.1938 Charlie Hall Blvd Charleston SC 29414
- Dr. Amanda Leigh Parks M.D.1938 Charlie Hall Blvd Unit B Charleston SC 29414
- Dr. Katherine A Minnick MD2095 Henry Tecklenburg Dr Charleston SC 29414
Nearest Hospitals
BON SECOURS-ST FRANCIS XAVIER HOSPITALl
2095 HENRY TECKLENBURG DRIVE CHARLESTON SC 29414ROPER HOSPITALl
316 CALHOUN ST CHARLESTON SC 29401