Dr. Barbara L Herwaldt MD, MPH
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1600 Clifton Rd Ne Mailstop A-06 Atlanta GA, 30329Rating
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Dr. Barbara Herwaldt is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Herwaldt 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
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1981
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1981
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The return of Cyclospora in 1997: another outbreak of cyclosporiasis in North
- Leishmaniasis.
- Miltefosine--the long-awaited therapy for visceral leishmaniasis?
- Epidemiologic studies of Cyclospora cayetanensis in Guatemala.
- A multiyear prospective study of the risk factors for and incidence of diarrheal illness in a cohort of Peace Corps volunteers in Guatemala.
- Cyclospora cayetanensis: a review, focusing on the outbreaks of cyclosporiasis in the 1990s.
- Multiyear prospective study of intestinal parasitism in a cohort of Peace Corps volunteers in Guatemala.
- Outbreak of cyclosporiasis associated with basil in Missouri in 1999.
- Laboratory-acquired parasitic infections from accidental exposures.
- An outbreak of eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis in travelers returning from the Caribbean.
- Outbreak of cyclosporiasis associated with imported raspberries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2000.
- Epidemiology of Cyclospora cayetanensis and other intestinal parasites in a community in Haiti.
- Molecular characterization of a non-Babesia divergens organism causing zoonotic babesiosis in Europe.
- Energy dependence of chloroquine accumulation and chloroquine efflux in Plasmodium falciparum.
- The natural history of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Guatemala.
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