Dr. Michael Jay Zapor MD, PHD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Dept Of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Med Ctr 6900 Georgia Ave Washington DC, 20307About
Dr. Michael Zapor is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Zapor 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Med-psych drug-drug interactions update. Antiretrovirals, part III: antiretrovirals and drugs of abuse.
- Infectious diseases during wartime.
- Emergence of multidrug resistance in bacteria and impact on antibiotic expenditure at a major army medical center caring for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- In vitro activity of the aminoglycoside antibiotic arbekacin against Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus isolated from war-wounded patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
- Curious marks on an Iraqi man with respiratory complaints.
- A large-scale, rapid public health response to rabies in an organ recipient and the previously undiagnosed organ donor.
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