Dr. David A Pegues MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3400 Spruce Street Ground Penn Tower Philadelphia PA, 19104Rating
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Dr. David Pegues is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Pegues 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
U Of Chgo Div Of Bio Sci Pritzker Sch Of Med 1986
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Mycobacterium abscessus empyema in a lung transplant recipient.
- Images in clinical medicine. Pulmonary cryptococcal granulomas.
- Building better programs to prevent transmission of blood-borne pathogens to healthcare personnel: progress in the workplace, but still no end in sight.
- Ocular vaccinia following exposure to a smallpox vaccinee.
- Transmission of mycobacterium tuberculosis via lung transplantation.
- Improving and enforcing compounding pharmacy practices to protect patients.
- Utility of oral valganciclovir for the treatment of cytomegalovirus disease after renal transplantation.
- Bartonella endocarditis in complex congenital heart disease.
- Rapid screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) did not reduce MRSA acquisition rate.
- Guideline for prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections 2009.
- Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis masquerading as Wegener granulomatosis.
- Daptomycin nonsusceptible enterococci: an emerging challenge for clinicians.
- Reduction of surgical site infections in low transverse cesarean section at a university hospital.
- ACP Journal Club. Review: Fidaxomicin is better than vancomycin for Clostridium difficile recurrence.
- Editorial commentary: search, destroy, and confirm: how to maximize the benefit and reduce the unintended consequences of contact precautions for control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
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