Dr. Don Walter Kannangara M.D..
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2750 Bridle Path Pl Bethlehem PA, 18017About
Dr. Don Kannangara is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Bethlehem, PA. Dr. Kannangara 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 Peradeniya MD
University Of Peradeniya, Fac Of Medicine 1966
University of Peradeniya Faculty of Medicine 1965
University of Colombo Faculty of Medicine 1966
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A comparison of post-mortem analysis of helminths with faecal egg counts.
- In vitro cultivation of Diplostomum spathaceum and Diplostomum phoxini metacercariae.
- In vitro cultivation of the metacercariae of the human lung fluke Paragonimus westermani.
- Rhabdochona praecox sp. n. and Proleptus sp. (Spiruroidea: Nematoda) from fresh water crabs in Ceylon.
- Trichomonas sp. from reptiles of Ceylon.
- Effectiveness of cefotaxime in gram-negative meningitis.
- Exfoliative dermatitis during cefoxitin therapy.
- Disulfiram-like reactions with newer cephalosporins: cefmenoxime.
- Treatment of infectious arthritis.
- Comparative efficacy of four antibiotics in anaerobic pulmonary infection. An experimental model in rabbits.
- Cardiac tuberculosis: TB of the endocardium.
- Cerebral chromomycosis.
- Bacteriology and treatment of dental infections.
- Drugs for urinary tract infections in women.
- Chemoprophylaxis of anaerobic pulmonary infections. An experimental study in rabbits.
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