Dr. John P. Rissing MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1120 15th St Augusta GA, 30912About
Dr. John Rissing is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Augusta, GA. Dr. Rissing 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
St Louis Univ Sch of Med, St Louis Mo 1969
Saint Louis University School of Medicine 1969
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Can physicians let patients die?
- Identification of non-B human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtypes in rural Georgia.
- Management considerations for an HIV positive dental student.
- Artifactual depression of serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase by metronidazole.
- Artifactual depression of serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase by metronidazole.
- An antibiotic resistant experimental model of Pseudomonas osteomyelitis.
- Animal models of osteomyelitis. Knowledge, hypothesis, and speculation.
- The promotional effect of bone wax on experimental Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis.
- Iontophoresis of vidarabine monophosphate for herpes orolabialis.
- Treatment of chronic experimental Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis with LY146032 and vancomycin.
- Cure of Curvularia pneumonia by amphotericin B in a patient with megakaryocytic leukemia.
- A serologic response in human infection with Enterobacteriaceae.
- A serologic response in human infection with Enterobacteriaceae.
- Effect of ibuprofen on gross pathology, bacterial count, and levels of prostaglandin E2 in experimental staphylococcal osteomyelitis.
- Synergism between Bacteroides fragilis and Staphylococcus aureus in experimental tibial osteomyelitis.
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