Dr. Leonard B Johnson MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
19251 Mack Ave 333 Grosse Pointe MI, 48236Rating
4/5
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Dr. Leonard Johnson is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Grosse Pointe, MI. Dr. Johnson 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 Ks Sch of Med, Kansas City Ks 1964
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine 1993
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Coccidioidal meningitis: incidental diagnosis 3 y after ventriculo-peritoneal shunt placement for hydrocephalus.
- Uterine granulomas: clinical and pathologic features.
- Staphylococcus aureus in a single positive blood culture: causes and outcome.
- Frequency of reduced vancomycin susceptibility and heterogeneous subpopulation in persistent or recurrent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.
- Second-generation azole antifungal agents.
- Persistence in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: incidence, characteristics of patients and outcome.
- Comparative activity of telavancin against isolates of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Gram-negative pneumonia among patients undergoing dialysis who were admitted to
- Treatment and recurrence management of staphylococcal infections: community-acquired MRSA.
- Role of SCCmec type in outcome of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in a single medical center.
- Vancomycin MIC plus heteroresistance and outcome of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: trends over 11 years.
- Telavancin: a novel lipoglycopeptide.
- Differences in patient risk factors and source of candidaemia caused by Candida albicans and Candida glabrata.
- In vitro activity of oritavancin against community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus (VISA), vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (VRSA) and daptomycin-non-susceptible S. aureus (DNSSA).
- Molecular analysis of 2 cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus cholecystitis and a review of the literature.
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