Dr. Barbara Jean Marston M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Atlanta Va Medical Center 1670 Clairmont Road Decatur GA, 30033About
Dr. Barbara Marston is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Decatur, GA. Dr. Marston 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
Temple Univ Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 1986
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Serotonin syndrome in HIV-infected individuals receiving antiretroviral therapy and fluoxetine.
- A pilot study of treatment of Buruli ulcer with rifampin and dapsone.
- HIV and malaria: interactions and implications.
- A program to provide antiretroviral therapy to residents of an urban slum in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Adverse Events in HIV-Infected Persons Receiving Antiretroviral Drug Regimens in a Large Urban Slum in Nairobi, Kenya, 2003-2005.
- Evaluation of TB and HIV services prior to introducing TB-HIV activities in two rural districts in western Kenya.
- Necrotizing tracheitis caused by Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum: unique case and review.
- High prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis and inadequate case finding in rural western Kenya.
- Care seeking and attitudes towards treatment compliance by newly enrolled tuberculosis patients in the district treatment programme in rural western Kenya: a qualitative study.
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of diagnostic options for pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP).
- Preventing deaths in persons with HIV/hepatitis B virus coinfection: a call to
- The cost-effectiveness of cotrimoxazole in people with advanced HIV infection initiating antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis diagnostic strategies to reduce early mortality among persons with advanced HIV infection initiating antiretroviral therapy.
- How can this be? Preventing death in patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis.
- Screening strategies for tuberculosis prevalence surveys: the value of chest radiography and symptoms.
Dr. Barbara Jean Marston M.D.'s Practice location
Practice At Atlanta Va Medical Center 1670 Clairmont Road
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