Dr. Michael S Calderwood M.D., M.P.H.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
15 Francis St Pbb-A4 Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Michael Calderwood is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Calderwood 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.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Malaria. Cooperative silencing elements in var genes.
- Plasmodium falciparum var genes are regulated by two regions with separate promoters, one upstream of the coding region and a second within the intron.
- Automated detection of infectious disease outbreaks in hospitals: a retrospective cohort study.
- Real-time surveillance for tuberculosis using electronic health record data from an ambulatory practice in eastern Massachusetts.
- High-dose intravenous vancomycin therapy and the risk of nephrotoxicity.
- Editorial Commentary: Duration of Colonization With Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A Question With Many Answers.
- Impact of Medicare's Hospital-Acquired Condition policy on infections in safety net and non-safety net hospitals.
- Impact of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital-Acquired Conditions Policy on Billing Rates for 2 Targeted Healthcare-Associated Infections.
- Impact of Hospital Operating Margin on Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Following Medicare's Hospital-Acquired Conditions Payment Policy.
- An Evaluation of Systemic Vancomycin Dosing in Obese Patients.
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