Dr. Joseph J Pulvirenti MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
500 E Ogden Ave Suite C Hinsdale IL, 60521About
Dr. Joseph Pulvirenti is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Hinsdale, IL. Dr. Pulvirenti 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
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Predominance of a single restriction endonuclease analysis group with intrahospital subgroup diversity among Clostridium difficile isolates at two Chicago hospitals.
- Hospitalized HIV-infected patients in the HAART era: a view from the inner city.
- Inpatient care of the HIV infected patient in the highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) era.
- Infective endocarditis in injection drug users: importance of human immunodeficiency virus serostatus and degree of immunosuppression.
- Clostridium paraputrificum bacteremia in a patient with AIDS and Duodenal Kaposi's sarcoma.
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