Dr. Scott K Fridkin M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1670 Clairmont Way Ne Va Medical Center, I Atlanta GA, 30329About
Dr. Scott Fridkin is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Fridkin 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
Loyola Univ of Chicago Stritch Sch of Med, Maywood Il 1990
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Vancomycin-intermediate and -resistant Staphylococcus aureus: what the infectious disease specialist needs to know.
- Increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in intensive care units.
- Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in a home health-care patient.
- The effect of renal dysfunction on antimicrobial use measurements.
- Infection with vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus containing the vanA resistance gene.
- Routine cycling of antimicrobial agents as an infection-control measure.
- Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the absence of vancomycin exposure.
- Emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a Memphis, Tennessee Children's Hospital.
- Cycling empirical antimicrobial agents to prevent emergence of antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative bacteria among intensive care unit patients.
- Epidemiology and predictors of mortality in cases of Candida bloodstream infection: results from population-based surveillance, barcelona, Spain, from 2002 to 2003.
- Determining risk factors for candidemia among newborn infants from population-based surveillance: Baltimore, Maryland, 1998-2000.
- No evidence of a mild form of inhalational Bacillus anthracis infection during a bioterrorism-related inhalational anthrax outbreak in Washington, D.C., in 2001.
- Candidemia is costly--plain and simple.
- The changing face of fungal infections in health care settings.
- Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization in the United States, 2001-2002.
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