Dr. Christopher Jason Crist M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2101 Treasure Hills Blvd Room 2. 136. 03 Harlingen TX, 78550About
Dr. Christopher Crist is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Harlingen, TX. Dr. Crist 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Comparison of the in vitro activity of the glycylcycline tigecycline (formerly GAR-936) with those of tetracycline, minocycline, and doxycycline against isolates of nontuberculous mycobacteria.
- Comparison of in vitro activities of gatifloxacin and ciprofloxacin against four taxa of rapidly growing mycobacteria.
- In vitro activity of linezolid against slowly growing nontuberculous Mycobacteria.
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