Dr. Lucio R. Minces M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
101 Willmar Avenue Sw Willmar MN, 56201About
Dr. Lucio Minces is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Minces 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
Demokritos University of Thrace Department of Medicine
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Advances in the Development of Microbicides for the Prevention of HIV Infection.
- Peptostreptococcus infective endocarditis and bacteremia. Analysis of cases at a tertiary medical center and review of the literature.
- Experience with linezolid for the treatment of nocardiosis in organ transplant recipients.
- Enterococcus faecalis Septicemia and Vertebral Osteomyelitis after Transrectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate.
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