
Dr. Benjamin Alan Lipsky M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1660 S Columbian Way Va Puget Sound Hcs, Seattle WA, 98108About
Dr. Benjamin Lipsky is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Seattle, WA. Dr. Lipsky 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fluoroquinolone toxicity profiles: a review focusing on newer agents.
- Prostatitis and urinary tract infection in men: what's new; what's true?
- Preventing catheter-related bacteriuria: should we? Can we? How?
- In vitro susceptibility to pexiganan of bacteria isolated from infected diabetic foot ulcers.
- Evidence-based antibiotic therapy of diabetic foot infections.
- Controlling the spread of vancomycin-resistant enterococci with contact precautions: time for a randomized trial.
- Urinary catheters: what type do men and their nurses prefer?
- Managing urinary tract infections in men.
- The clinical and economic consequences of nosocomial central venous catheter-related infection: are antimicrobial catheters useful?
- Are the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines effective? Meta-analysis of the prospective trials.
- Principles and practice of antibiotic therapy of diabetic foot infections.
- Central nervous system disease in systemic lupus erythematosus. Therapy and prognosis.
- Chlorhexidine compared with povidone-iodine solution for vascular catheter-site
- Indwelling urinary catheters: a one-point restraint?
- Which antimicrobial impregnated central venous catheter should we use? Modeling the costs and outcomes of antimicrobial catheter use.
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