Dr. Donald H. Batts M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
363 FREMONT ST BATTLE CREEK MI, 49017About
Dr. Donald Batts is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Kalamazoo, MI. Dr. Batts 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
Loyola Univ of Chicago Stritch Sch of Med, Maywood Il 1972
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Linezolid--a new option for treating gram-positive infections.
- Linezolid, a novel oxazolidinone antibiotic: assessment of monoamine oxidase inhibition using pressor response to oral tyramine.
- Linezolid: pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic evaluation of coadministration with pseudoephedrine HCl, phenylpropanolamine HCl, and dextromethorpan HBr.
- Linezolid versus vancomycin for the treatment of methicillin-resistant
- Linezolid for the treatment of multidrug-resistant, gram-positive infections: experience from a compassionate-use program.
- Pharmacokinetics and tolerance of single- and multiple-dose oral or intravenous linezolid, an oxazolidinone antibiotic, in healthy volunteers.
- Pharmacokinetics of linezolid in subjects with renal dysfunction.
- Multiple-dose, double-blind, placebo controlled intravenous tolerance and pharmacokinetic study of trospectomycin sulfate (U-63, 366F) in healthy male volunteers.
- Postoperative discitis. Diagnosis and management.
- Ampicillin-induced enterocolitis: implication of toxigenic Clostridium perfringens type C.
- Disseminated histoplasmosis, invasive pulmonary aspergillosis, and other opportunistic infections in a homosexual patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
- Eastern equine encephalitis in Michigan.
- Transverse myelitis caused by duck embryo rabies vaccine.
- Epidemiology of antibiotic-associated colitis; isolation of Clostridium difficile from the hospital environment.
- Treatment of antibiotic-associated Clostridium difficile diarrhea with oral vancomycin.
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