Dr. Jerry D Smilack M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
5779 E Mayo Blvd Phoenix AZ, 85054Rating
5/5
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Dr. Jerry Smilack is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Phoenix, AZ. Dr. Smilack 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 Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1968
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The tetracyclines.
- Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
- Images in clinical medicine. Pulmonary and disseminated nocardiosis.
- Bone and joint infection with Arizona hinshawii: report of a case and a review of the literature.
- Detection of JC virus by polymerase chain reaction in cerebrospinal fluid from two patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy.
- Aspergillus fumigatus septic arthritis complicating intra-articular corticosteroid injection.
- Pyogenic liver abscess after colonoscopy in a patient with ulcerative colitis.
- Clinicopathologic spectrum of specific cutaneous lesions of disseminated coccidioidomycosis.
- Coccidioidal pneumonia, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 2000-2004.
- Medical extremes (a compendium of medical records) is now online.
- Group-y meningococcal disease. Twelve cases at an army training center.
- Distribution of D-amino acid oxidase in bovine and human nervous tissues.
- Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia and clindamycin therapy. Failure to demonstrate efficacy.
- In vitro activity of N-formimidoyl thienamycin (MK0787), a crystalline derivative of thienamycin.
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