Dr. Joseph R. Masci M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
7901 Broadway Rooma1-9 Elmhurst NY, 11373Rating
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Dr. Joseph Masci is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Elmhurst, NY. Dr. Masci 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
New York Univ Sch of Med, New York Ny 1976
New York University School of Medicine 1976
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Infectious problems in surgical patients.
- Coping among HIV negative and HIV positive female injection drug users.
- Coping strategies of HIV-positive and HIV-negative female injection drug users: a longitudinal study.
- Longitudinal pathways to condom use: a psychosocial study of male IDUs.
- Needle sharing: a longitudinal study of female injection drug users.
- Complete response of severe, refractory oral candidiasis to mouthwash containing lactoferrin and lysozyme.
- Marijuana use among the adolescent children of high-risk drug-abusing fathers.
- Primary care for patients with HIV.
- Disseminated strongyloidiasis and other selected unusual infections in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
- Cryptococcal skeletal infections: case report and review.
- Inhaled pentamidine in Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
- Pentamidine and hypoglycaemia.
- Precautions recommended in treating patients with AIDS.
- Coping with AIDS and the threat of AIDS in intravenous drug abusers.
- Decreased efficacy of inhaled pentamidine in the prevention of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia among HIV-infected patients with severe immunodeficiency.
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