Dr. John Manchester Townes MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3181 Sw Sam Jackson Park Rd Portland OR, 97239Rating
5/5
About
Dr. John Townes is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Portland, OR. Dr. Townes 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
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1990
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1990
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Acute infectious gastroenteritis in adults. Seven steps to management and prevention.
- Reactive arthritis after enteric infections in the United States: the problem of definition.
- Neurocysticercosis among resettled refugees from Burma.
- Clinical management of septic arthritis.
- Trends in invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections.
- Establishment of a statewide network for carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae prevention in a low-incidence region.
- Predictive value of testing nasopharyngeal samples for respiratory viruses in the setting of lower respiratory tract disease.
- Evaluating Healthcare Claims for Neurocysticercosis by Using All-Payer All-Claims Data, Oregon, 2010-2013.
Fellowships
- CTRS FOR DIS CTRL, ATLANTA, GA United States,, Public Health and General Preventative Medicine 1993
- Epidemic Intelligence Service, Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA Clinical Fellow - Vanderbilt University M 1993
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