Dr. Robert H Latham MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4220 Harding Rd Nashville TN, 37205Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Robert Latham is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Nashville, TN. Dr. Latham 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
Vanderbilt Univ Sch of Med, Nashville Tn 1977
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Bipolaris spicifera meningitis complicating a neurosurgerical procedure.
- Acute pubic osteomyelitis in athletes.
- Rocky Mountain spotted (and spotless) fever.
- Medical therapy versus early surgical intervention in patients with endocarditis and vegetations seen on echocardiography.
- Suppurative tissue reaction in a patient with disseminated Mycobacterium
- Postcoital antimicrobial prophylaxis for recurrent urinary tract infection. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
- Ofloxacin versus trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for treatment of acute cystitis.
- Molecular mechanisms of interaction of mucosal pathogens with human mucosal surfaces.
- A factitious case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
- Urinary tract infections and the urethral syndrome in adult women: pathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapy.
- Laboratory diagnosis of urinary tract infection in ambulatory women.
- Association between diaphragm use and urinary tract infection.
- Role of fimbriated Escherichia coli in urinary tract infections in adult women: correlation with localization studies.
- Foodborne hepatitis A at a family reunion use of IgM-specific hepatitis a serologic testing.
- Staphylococcus saprophyticus beta-lactamase production and disk diffusion susceptibility testing for three beta-lactam antimicrobial agents.
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