Dr. Carlos Mario Perez-velez M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2980 E AJO WAY TUCSON AZ, 85713About
Dr. Carlos Perez-velez is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Denver, CO. Dr. Perez-velez 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
University Of Antioquia MD
University of Antioquia / College of Medicine 1995
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Pediatric tuberculosis: new guidelines and recommendations.
- Tuberculosis in children.
- High initial multidrug-resistant tuberculosis rate in Buenaventura, Colombia: a public-private initiative.
- Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis in children.
- Rituximab as successful adjunct treatment in a patient with disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial infection due to acquired anti-interferon-γ autoantibody.
- Assessment of children exposed to adult pulmonary tuberculosis in Cali, Colombia.
- Setting priorities for a research agenda to combat drug-resistant tuberculosis in children.
- A systematic approach to diagnosing intra-thoracic tuberculosis in children.
- Tuberculosis exposure, infection and disease in children: a systematic diagnostic approach.
- Severe Enteropathy and Hypogammaglobulinemia Complicating Refractory Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Disseminated Disease in a Child with IL-12Rβ1 Deficiency.
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