Dr. Carlos I Bustamante MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
20814 W Dixie Hwy Miami FL, 33180About
Dr. Carlos Bustamante is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Miami, FL. Dr. Bustamante 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
Universidad Central De Venezuela--Luis Razetti, Escuela De Medicine 1976
Universidad Central de Venezuela Escuela de Medicina Luis Razetti 1976
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Treatment of Candida infection: a view from the trenches!
- Herpes simplex virus infection in the immunocompromised cancer patient.
- In vitro activity of ciprofloxacin in combination with ceftazidime, aztreonam, and azlocillin against multiresistant isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
- Group A streptococcal bacteremias associated with intravascular catheters.
- Treatment of interstitial pneumonia in cancer patients: is empiric antibiotic therapy the answer?
- Use of murine monoclonal antibodies for laboratory diagnosis of varicella-zoster virus infection.
- Synergism of the combinations of imipenem plus ciprofloxacin and imipenem plus amikacin against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other bacterial pathogens.
- Bacillus infections in patients with cancer.
- Imipenem coadministered with cilastatin compared with moxalactam: integration of serum pharmacokinetics and microbiologic activity following single-dose administration to normal volunteers.
- Monotherapy for empiric treatment of fever in granulocytopenic cancer patients.
- Hickman catheters in association with intensive cancer chemotherapy.
- Initial empiric therapy for fever in neutropenia.
- Disseminated cutaneous and vascular invasion by Fusarium moniliforme in a fatal case of acute lymphocytic leukemia.
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