Dr. Carmelita U. Tuazon M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2150 Pennsylvania Ave Nw Washington DC, 20037About
Dr. Carmelita Tuazon is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Tuazon 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
Univ Of The Philippines- Coll Of Med- Manila- Philippines 1964
University of the Philippines Manila College of Medicine 1964
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Vancomycin-associated thrombocytopenia: case report and review of the literature.
- A randomized trial of ciprofloxacin versus cefixime for treatment of gonorrhea after rapid emergence of gonococcal ciprofloxacin resistance in The Philippines.
- Endocarditis caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: treatment failure with linezolid.
- Disseminated histoplasmosis with unusual cutaneous lesions in a patient from the Philippines.
- Clarithromycin-induced thrombocytopenia.
- Migration of 75Se-methionine-labeled Schistosoma japonicum in normal and immunized mice.
- Severe soft-tissue infection caused by Eikenella corrodens.
- Treatment of brain abscess caused by Listeria monocytogenes in a patient with allergy to penicillin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
- Comparison of amphotericin B with fluconazole in the treatment of acute AIDS-associated cryptococcal meningitis. The NIAID Mycoses Study Group and the AIDS Clinical Trials Group.
- Listeria monocytogenes infections in patients with AIDS: report of five cases and review.
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation associated with Staphylococcus aureus septicemia is mediated by peptidoglycan-induced platelet aggregation.
- Trimetrexate-leucovorin dosage evaluation study for treatment of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
- Cardiovascular and bacteremic manifestations of Campylobacter fetus infection: case report and review.
- Serum and atrial tissue concentrations of cefonicid and cefamandole in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
- Suppurative cervical adenitis caused by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans.
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