Dr. Vivian Hou Chu MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4101 N Roxboro St Durham NC, 27704About
Dr. Vivian Chu is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Durham, NC. Dr. Chu 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- Increasing rates of cardiac device infections among Medicare beneficiaries: 1990-1999.
- Native valve endocarditis due to coagulase-negative staphylococci: report of 99 episodes from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Merged Database.
- Risk of endocarditis among patients with prosthetic valves and Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.
- Candida infective endocarditis.
- Coagulase-negative staphylococci and endocarditis: reappraisal in the 21st century.
- Associations between the genotypes of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream isolates and clinical characteristics and outcomes of bacteremic patients.
- Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among patients with health care-associated fever.
- Clinical presentation, etiology, and outcome of infective endocarditis in the 21st century: the International Collaboration on Endocarditis-Prospective Cohort Study.
- Analysis of the impact of early surgery on in-hospital mortality of native valve endocarditis: use of propensity score and instrumental variable methods to adjust for treatment-selection bias.
- Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis isolates are associated with clonal complex 30 genotype and a distinct repertoire of enterotoxins and adhesins.
- Ertapenem for treatment of osteomyelitis: a case series.
- Increasing US rates of endocarditis with Staphylococcus aureus: 1999-2008.
- Editorial commentary: telephone consultation for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: opening Pandora's box.
- Reply to Tleyjeh and Baddour.
- Enterococcal endocarditis in the beginning of the 21st century: analysis from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis-Prospective Cohort Study.
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