Dr. Barbara D Alexander M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Erwin Rd Durham NC, 27710About
Dr. Barbara Alexander is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Durham, NC. Dr. Alexander 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
Univ of Md Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1993
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Sepsis, multiple organ failure, and death due to Pandoraea pnomenusa infection after lung transplantation.
- Prophylaxis of invasive mycoses in solid organ transplantation.
- Spontaneous dermal abscesses and ulcers as a result of Serratia marcescens.
- New developments in the diagnosis and treatment of infections in lung transplant recipients.
- Infections due to Scedosporium apiospermum and Scedosporium prolificans in transplant recipients: clinical characteristics and impact of antifungal agent therapy on outcome.
- Cryptococcus neoformans isolates from transplant recipients are not selected for resistance to calcineurin inhibitors by current immunosuppressive regimens.
- Cryptococcosis after solid organ transplantation.
- Echinocandins: role in antifungal therapy, 2005.
- Posaconazole.
- Candida glabrata fungemia in transplant patients receiving voriconazole after fluconazole.
- Non-Aspergillus fungal pneumonia in transplant recipients.
- Cost savings with implementation of PNA FISH testing for identification of Candida albicans in blood cultures.
- Caspofungin for invasive candidiasis at a tertiary care medical center.
- Comparative evaluation of Etest and sensititre yeastone panels against the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute M27-A2 reference broth microdilution method for testing Candida susceptibility to seven antifungal agents.
- Validation of laboratory screening criteria for herpes simplex virus testing of cerebrospinal fluid.
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PO BOX 3814 DUMC ERWIN RD DURHAM NC 27710DUKE REGIONAL HOSPITALl
3643 N ROXBORO ROAD DURHAM NC 27704