Dr. Robert H Alford M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2300 Patterson St Centennial Medical C Nashville TN, 37203Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Robert Alford is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Nashville, TN. Dr. Alford 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
Vanderbilt Univ Sch of Med, Nashville Tn 1961
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1961
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Letter: Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and brain abscess.
- The effect of cirrhosis on the disposition and elimination of clindamycin.
- Pulmonary cryptococcosis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
- Ontogeny of human cell-mediated immunity: age-related variation of in vitro infantile lymphocyte transformation.
- EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION OF HUMAN VOLUNTEERS WITH EQUINE INFLUENZA VIRUS.
- Treatment of Paecilomyces varioti infection.
- Sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim-polymyxin therapy of serious multiply drug-resistant Serratia infections.
- Sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim-polymyxin therapy of serious multiply drug-resistant Serratia infections.
- Atypical herpesvirus hominis type 2 infection in uremic patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy.
- Atypical herpesvirus hominis type 2 infection in uremic patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy.
- Anaerobic septicemia after transrectal prostatic biopsy.
- Anaerobic septicemia after transrectal prostatic biopsy.
- Adverse antibiotic effects associated with renal insufficiency.
- Gram-negative bacillary endocarditis. Interpretation of the serum bactericial test.
- Gram-negative bacillary endocarditis. Interpretation of the serum bactericial test.
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