Dr. Joseph Anthony Bocchini M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Infectious Diseases
1501 Kings Hwy Department Of Pediat Shreveport LA, 71103About
Dr. Joseph Bocchini is a pediatric infectious disease specialist practicing in Shreveport, LA. Dr. Bocchini specializes in recurring or persistent diseases caused by bacteria, parasites or fungus in infants, children and adolescents. Pediatric infectious disease specialists also provide consultation to other health care professionals dealing with complex cases.
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Infectious Diseases
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Low literacy and violence among adolescents in a summer sports program.
- Childhood vaccine risk/benefit communication in private practice office settings: a national survey.
- Explaining the risks and benefits of vaccines to parents.
- Improving vaccine risk/benefit communication with an immunization education
- Hyperketonemia increases tumor necrosis factor-alpha secretion in cultured U937 monocytes and Type 1 diabetic patients and is apparently mediated by oxidative stress and cAMP deficiency.
- Absence of association of fetal MTHFR C677T polymorphism with prenatal Down syndrome pregnancies.
- Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase 677CC normal genotype may protect against multiple myeloma.
- Elevated blood interleukin-6 levels in hyperketonemic type 1 diabetic patients and secretion by acetoacetate-treated cultured U937 monocytes.
- Childhood vaccine risk/benefit communication among public health clinics: a time-motion study.
- Lack of effect of respiratory syncytial virus infection on theophylline disposition in children.
- Childhood immunization refusal: provider and parent perceptions.
- Summertime respiratory syncytial virus infection: epidemiology and clinical manifestations.
- Novel allele of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphism in Caucasian asthmatics.
- Thiamin deficiency: a possible major cause of some tumors? (review).
- Personal observation of skin disorders in malnutrition.
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