Dr. David L Swerdlow M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1670 Clairmont Rd Medical Specialty Decatur GA, 30033About
Dr. David Swerdlow is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Decatur, GA. Dr. Swerdlow 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1986
Harvard Medical School 1986
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Campylobacter jejuni--an emerging foodborne pathogen.
- Outbreak of type A botulism and development of a botulism surveillance and antitoxin release system in Argentina.
- Global burden of Shigella infections: implications for vaccine development and implementation of control strategies.
- Clinical, epidemiological, and microbiological features of Vibrio vulnificus biogroup 3 causing outbreaks of wound infection and bacteraemia in Israel. Israel Vibrio Study Group.
- Campylobacter jejuni.
- Risk of infant botulism from corn syrup.
- Host-pathogen interactions in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: a genomic perspective of tuberculosis, malaria, human immunodeficiency virus infection, hepatitis B, and cholera.
- The pandemic of Salmonella enteritidis phage type 4 reaches Utah: a complex investigation confirms the need for continuing rigorous control measures.
- An outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni infections associated with food handler contamination: the use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
- Botulinum toxin as a biological weapon: medical and public health management.
- Evaluation of methods for subtyping Campylobacter jejuni during an outbreak involving a food handler.
- Precautions against biological and chemical terrorism directed at food and water supplies.
- Is anything safe to eat?
- Threat of a biological terrorist attack on the US food supply: the CDC perspective.
- Investigation of multistate foodborne disease outbreaks.
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