Dr. Paul Raymond Cieslak M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3007 Ne 53rd Ave Portland OR, 97213About
Dr. Paul Cieslak is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Portland, OR. Dr. Cieslak 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Tracking drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in Oregon: an alternative surveillance method.
- Group B streptococcal disease in the era of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis.
- Emergence of antimicrobial-resistant shigellosis in Oregon.
- Increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in the United States.
- A nosocomial outbreak of fluoroquinolone-resistant salmonella infection.
- Macrolide resistance among invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates.
- Group A streptococcal puerperal sepsis preceded by positive surveillance cultures.
- Alfalfa seed decontamination in a Salmonella outbreak.
- A severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mouse model for infection with Entamoeba histolytica.
- Chickenpox outbreak in a highly vaccinated school population.
- Hepatitis B vaccine coverage among infants born to women without prenatal screening for hepatitis B virus infection: effects of the Joint Statement on Thimerosal in Vaccines.
- FoodNet estimate of the burden of illness caused by nontyphoidal Salmonella infections in the United States.
- Hospitalizations and deaths due to Salmonella infections, FoodNet, 1996-1999.
- Seroprevalence of hepatitis B and C in juvenile detention entrants, Oregon, 1994-1996.
- Transmission of hepatitis C virus to several organ and tissue recipients from an antibody-negative donor.
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