Dr. John Matthew Colford MD, MPH, PHD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4150 Clement St San Francisco Va Hos San Francisco CA, 94121About
Dr. John Colford is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Colford 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- Prevalence and correlates of hepatitis C virus infection among inmates entering the California correctional system.
- Methods for assessing the public health impact of outflows from combined sewer systems.
- The impact of dosing frequency on the efficacy of 10-day penicillin or amoxicillin therapy for streptococcal tonsillopharyngitis: A meta-analysis.
- Nonparametric survival estimation when death is reported with delay.
- Chorioamnionitis as a risk factor for cerebral palsy: A meta-analysis.
- Waterborne diseases.
- The Serologic response to Cryptosporidium in HIV-infected persons: implications for epidemiologic research.
- Race/ethnicity and other risk of factors associated with cryptosporidiosis as an initial AIDS-defining condition in California, 1980-99.
- Risk factors in HIV-associated diarrhoeal disease: the role of drinking water, medication and immune status.
- Meta-analysis of the impact of HIV on the infectiousness of tuberculosis: methodological concerns.
- Clinical trials in India sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry: a proposal for
- Disease transmission models for public health decision making: analysis of epidemic and endemic conditions caused by waterborne pathogens.
- Chinese herbal medicine and interferon in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B: a meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials.
- Associations between water-treatment methods and diarrhoea in HIV-positive individuals.
- Statistical estimation of parameters in a disease transmission model: analysis of a Cryptosporidium outbreak.
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