Dr. Louis B. Rice MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
164 Summit Ave Providence RI, 02906Rating
5/5
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Dr. Louis Rice is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Providence, RI. Dr. Rice 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
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1983
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 1983
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- beta -Lactamases: which ones are clinically important?
- Antibiotic-resistant gram-negative organisms in pediatric chronic-care facilities.
- Empirical antibiotic choice for the seriously ill patient: are minimization of selection of resistant organisms and maximization of individual outcome mutually exclusive?
- An interventional program to improve antibiotic use.
- Use of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis for analysis of the stool microbiota of hospitalized patients.
- Collateral damage.
- Recombination proficiency influences frequency and locus of mutational resistance to linezolid in Enterococcus faecalis.
- Controlling antibiotic resistance in the ICU: different bacteria, different strategies.
- Do we really need new anti-infective drugs?
- Effect of parenteral fluoroquinolone administration on persistence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in the mouse gastrointestinal tract.
- Clinical-use-associated decrease in susceptibility of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium to linezolid: a comparison with quinupristin-dalfopristin.
- In vitro antienterococcal activity explains associations between exposures to antimicrobial agents and risk of colonization by multiresistant enterococci.
- A novel peptidoglycan cross-linking enzyme for a beta-lactam-resistant transpeptidation pathway.
- Tn5386, a novel Tn916-like mobile element in Enterococcus faecium D344R that interacts with Tn916 to yield a large genomic deletion.
- Unmet medical needs in antibacterial therapy.
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