Dr. Lisa Gail Winston MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1001 Potrero Avenue Bldg 30 4th Floor San Francisco CA, 94110About
Dr. Lisa Winston is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Winston 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
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1994
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Penicillin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae at San Francisco General Hospital.
- Mupirocin prophylaxis misses by a nose.
- Clinical, epidemiologic, and molecular evaluation of a clonal outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection.
- Impact of a formulary switch from ticarcillin-clavulanate to piperacillin-tazobactam on colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
- Introduction of a waterless hand gel was associated with a reduced rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a surgical intensive care unit.
- Preoperative use of mupirocin for the prevention of healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus infections: a cost-effectiveness analysis.
- False-positive culture results from patient tissue specimens due to contamination of RPMI medium with Cryptococcus albidus.
- Efficacy of short-course antibiotic regimens for community-acquired pneumonia: a meta-analysis.
- Clinical failures of appropriately-treated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections.
- Infective endocarditis in an urban medical center: association of individual drugs with valvular involvement.
- Predictors of pneumonia severity in HIV-infected adults admitted to an Urban public hospital.
- Risk factors for acquisition of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in an urban county hospital.
- Does doxycycline protect against development of Clostridium difficile infection?
- Risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patients with community-onset and hospital-onset pneumonia.
- Burden of Clostridium difficile infection in the United States.
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