Dr. Myles Edward Gombert MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
30 Wood Road Port Washington NY, 11050About
Dr. Myles Gombert is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Port Washington, NY. Dr. Gombert 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
New York Med Coll- Valhalla Ny 1975
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Nocardia and nocardiosis.
- Strategies for the management of varicella-susceptible healthcare workers after a known exposure.
- Therapy of pulmonary nocardiosis in immunocompromised mice.
- Antimicrobial synergism in the therapy of experimental cerebral nocardiosis.
- Comparison of agar dilution, microtitre broth dilution and tube macrodilution susceptibility testing of ciprofloxacin against several pathogens at two different inocula.
- Susceptibility of Nocardia asteroides to new quinolones and beta-lactams.
- Airborne transmission of nosocomial varicella from localized zoster.
- Susceptibility of Eikenella corrodens to newer and older quinolones.
- Amikacin synergism with beta-lactam antibiotics against selected nosocomial pathogens.
- Susceptibility of gram-positive cocci to various antibiotics, including cefotaxime, moxalactam, and N-formimidoyl thienamycin.
- Treatment of gram-negative bacillary meningitis: role of the new cephalosporin antibiotics.
- Treatment of chromomycosis with ketoconazole and 5-fluorocytosine.
- Synergism of imipenem and amikacin in combination with other antibiotics against Nocardia asteroides.
- Synergistic effect of N-formimidoyl thienamycin with gentamicin and amikacin against Streptococcus faecalis.
- Susceptibility of multiply antibiotic-resistant pneumococci to the new quinoline antibiotics, nalidixic acid, coumermycin, and novobiocin.
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