Dr. James Vincent Lawler MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Nnmc 8901 Wisconsin Ave Bethesda MD, 20889About
Dr. James Lawler is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Lawler 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.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Diagnosis and treatment of bacterial diarrhea.
- History of U.S. military contributions to the study of viral hemorrhagic fevers.
- Traveler's diarrhea in Thailand: randomized, double-blind trial comparing single-dose and 3-day azithromycin-based regimens with a 3-day levofloxacin regimen.
- Clinical management of filovirus-infected patients.
- Clinical presentation of patients with Ebola virus disease in Conakry, Guinea.
- Melioidosis in lower provincial Cambodia: A case series from a prospective study of sepsis in Takeo Province.
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