Dr. Erika M D'agata M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr 330 Brookline Avenue Boston MA, 02215About
Dr. Erika D'agata is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. D'agata 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 Toronto Fac Of Med 1990
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Molecular epidemiology of ceftazidime-resistant gram-negative bacilli on inanimate surfaces and their role in cross-transmission during nonoutbreak periods.
- Vancomycin prescribing practices in hospitalized chronic hemodialysis patients.
- An outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii: the importance of cross-transmission.
- Indications for vancomycin in dialysis patients.
- Community dissemination of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium.
- Comparison of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and amplified fragment-length polymorphism for epidemiological investigations of common nosocomial pathogens.
- Rapidly increasing prevalence of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in middle Tennessee: a 10-year clinical and molecular analysis.
- Antimicrobial-resistant, Gram-positive bacteria among patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis.
- Mupirocin prophylaxis to prevent Staphylococcus aureus infection in patients undergoing dialysis: a meta-analysis.
- Perioperative blood transfusion is predictive of poststernotomy surgical site infection: marker for morbidity or true immunosuppressant?
- Preventing the influx of vancomycin-resistant enterococci into health care institutions, by use of a simple validated prediction rule.
- Rapidly rising prevalence of nosocomial multidrug-resistant, Gram-negative bacilli: a 9-year surveillance study.
- Methodologic issues of case-control studies: a review of established and newly recognized limitations.
- The rising influx of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacilli into a tertiary care hospital.
- A model of antibiotic-resistant bacterial epidemics in hospitals.
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