Dr. John R Lonks MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
164 Summit Ave Fain Bldg. , Suite E Providence RI, 02906About
Dr. John Lonks is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Providence, RI. Dr. Lonks 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
Umdnj-New Jersey Med Sch- Newark Nj 1986
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Endocarditis due to Streptococcus mitis with high-level resistance to penicillin and cefotaxime.
- Comparative In vitro activities of daptomycin and vancomycin against resistant gram-positive pathogens.
- Implications of antimicrobial resistance in the empirical treatment of community-acquired respiratory tract infections: the case of macrolides.
- One response to the threat of bioterror: smallpox vaccination.
- Hidden epidemic of macrolide-resistant pneumococci.
- Inflammatory bowel disease potpourri: a vignette-based discussion.
- Spurious oxacillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus because of defective oxacillin disks.
- The growing threat of antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae.
- High rate of erythromycin and clarithromycin resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from blood cultures from Providence, R.I.
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Practice At 164 Summit Ave Fain Bldg. , Suite E
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593 EDDY STREET PROVIDENCE RI 2903