Dr. Karam C Mounzer MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1233 Locust Street 500 Philadelphia PA, 19107About
Dr. Karam Mounzer is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Mounzer 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
Universite Saint Joseph MD
Saint Joseph`s University / Faculty of Medicine 1992
UniversitÈ Saint-Joseph FacultÈ de MÈdecine 1992
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Relationship of admission plasma gelsolin levels to clinical outcomes in patients after major trauma.
- Photo quiz. Infection due to Exophiala jeanselmei.
- Antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients with multidrug-resistant virus: applying the guidelines to practice.
- Delayed loss of control of plasma lipopolysaccharide levels after therapy interruption in chronically HIV-1-infected patients.
- Evidence of a decrease in CD4 recovery once back on antiretroviral therapy after sequential > or =6 weeks antiretroviral therapy interruptions.
- Increased plasmacytoid dendritic cell maturation and natural killer cell activation in HIV-1 exposed, uninfected intravenous drug users.
- Seminal human immunodeficiency virus blips and structured natural conception in serodiscordant couples.
- Ehrlichial infections.
- Prophylactic use of antibiotics and vaccines in patients with rheumatologic disorders.
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