Dr. Mindy G Schuster MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3400 Spruce St Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Mindy Schuster is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Schuster 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
Yale School of Medicine 1987
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 1990
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease- 1992
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Is an observation period necessary after intravenous antibiotics are changed to oral administration?
- High rate of invasive fungal infections following nonmyeloablative allogeneic transplantation.
- Cytomegalovirus hepatitis associated with use of anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha antibody.
- Successful treatment of Aspergillus prosthetic valve endocarditis with oral voriconazole.
- Evolutionary computation and the vega risk of American put options.
- Fatal Kytococcus schroeteri infection with crusted papules and distinctive histologic plump tetrads.
- Vancomycin-resistant enterococcal meningitis in an autologous stem cell transplant recipient cured with linezolid.
- Risk factors and outcomes of Candida krusei bloodstream infection: a matched, case-control study.
- Identification of fungal pathogens in a patient with acute myelogenic leukemia using a pathogen detection array technology.
- Laboratory suggestion. A safety device for attaching and removing microtome knife back.
- Chloramphenicol for the treatment of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infections.
- Zygomycosis orbital apex syndrome in association with a solitary lung carcinoma.
- Disseminated cutaneous Pseudallescheria boydii.
- Persistent bacteremia with Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in a hospitalized patient.
- The cause of fever following resolution of neutropenia in patients with acute leukemia.
Awards
- 2002 Recognized in Philadelphia Magazine 's Top Docs issue
Professional Memberships
- Member American College of Physicians
- Member Organ Transplant Infection Detection Project--Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (TRANSNET)
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