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Dr. Helen W. Boucher MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
750 Washington St Boston MA, 02111About
Dr. Helen Boucher is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Boucher 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
U of Tx Med Sch At Houston, Houston Tx 1993
University of Texas At Houston / Medical School At Houston 1993
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Newer systemic antifungal agents : pharmacokinetics, safety and efficacy.
- Perspectives on Daptomycin resistance, with emphasis on resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
- Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Immunocompromised hosts: perspectives in the treatment and prophylaxis of cytomegalovirus disease in solid-organ transplant recipients.
- Position paper: recommended design features of future clinical trials of antibacterial agents for community-acquired pneumonia.
- Initial low-dose gentamicin for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis is nephrotoxic.
- Community-based outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (CoPAT) for Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia with or without infective endocarditis: analysis of the randomized trial comparing daptomycin with standard therapy.
- Gram-negative bloodstream infections.
- Challenges in anti-infective development in the era of bad bugs, no drugs: a regulatory perspective using the example of bloodstream infection as an indication.
- Daptomycin for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection and elevated vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentrations: has the time come?
- Current concepts in antimicrobial therapy against select gram-positive organisms: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, penicillin-resistant pneumococci, and vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
- Antibiotics for skin infections: new study design and a step toward shorter course therapy.
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