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Dr. Robert E Levitz M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
80 Seymour Street Hartford CT, 06102About
Dr. Robert Levitz is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Hartford, CT. Dr. Levitz 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
Boston Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1978
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prosthetic-valve endocarditis caused by penicillin-resistant Streptococcus mitis.
- Clinical manifestations and antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease.
- Seroprevalence of antibodies to hepatitis C virus in high-risk hospital personnel.
- Herpes simplex encephalitis: the case against brain biopsy.
- Treatment of prosthetic valve endocarditis due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with minocycline.
- Gastroenteritis, sepsis, and osteomyelitis caused by Plesiomonas shigelloides in an immunocompetent host: case report and review of the literature.
- Pharmacokinetics of nafcillin in obesity.
- Invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease in adults.
- Tetracyclines in therapy of Mycobacterium marinum infections.
- Therapy of Mycobacterium marinum infections. Use of tetracyclines vs rifampin.
- Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for bacterial meningitis.
- Herpes simplex encephalitis: the case against brain biopsy.
- Immunization with high-dose intradermal recombinant hepatitis B vaccine in healthcare workers who failed to respond to intramuscular vaccination.
- Herpes simplex encephalitis: a review.
Treatments
- Lyme Disease, Travel Medicine
Dr. Robert E Levitz M.D.'s Practice location
Practice At 80 Seymour Street
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Nearby Providers
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Nearest Hospitals
CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTERl
282 WASHINGTON STREET HARTFORD CT 6106ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTERl
114 WOODLAND STREET HARTFORD CT 6105