Dr. John H Powers M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
18511 Fiddleleaf Ter Olney MD, 20832About
Dr. John Powers is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Olney, MD. Dr. Powers 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 University School of Medicine 1988
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The United States Food and Drug Administration and noninferiority margins in clinical trials of antimicrobial agents.
- Correlation between bacteriologic and clinical endpoints in trials of acute otitis media.
- Development of drugs for antimicrobial-resistant pathogens.
- Lipid amphotericin B formulations as comparators in clinical trials.
- Tubes and ear infections.
- Linezolid and vancomycin for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nosocomial pneumonia: the subtleties of subgroup analyses.
- Issues in clinical trials of prophylaxis of fungal infections.
- Considerations in clinical trials of combination antifungal therapy.
- Empirical antifungal therapy in febrile neutropenic patients: caution about composite end points and the perils of P values.
- Correlation between bacteriologic eradication and clinical cure in acute otitis media.
- Ribavirin trials and hantavirus--what we should not conclude.
- FDA evaluation of antimicrobials: subgroup analysis.
- Levofloxacin and macrolides for treatment of Legionnaires disease: multiple comparisons give few answers.
- Microbiologic surrogate end points in clinical trials of infectious diseases: example of acute otitis media trials.
- Antimicrobial drug resistance, regulation, and research.
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