Dr. M. Cecilia Di pentima MD
Infectious Disease Specialist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Infectious Diseases
3601 Tvc Nashville TN, 37232About
Dr. M. Di pentima is a pediatric infectious disease specialist practicing in Nashville, TN. Dr. Di pentima specializes in recurring or persistent diseases caused by bacteria, parasites or fungus in infants, children and adolescents. Pediatric infectious disease specialists also provide consultation to other health care professionals dealing with complex cases.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for IgA antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi in congenital infection.
- Prevalence of antibody to Trypanosoma cruzi in pregnant Hispanic women in Houston.
- Late-onset Mycobacterium abscessus sepsis in a very low birthweight premature infant: diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.
- Are your patients at risk? Fungal contamination of Ilex paraguariensis St. Hil (yerba maté).
- Impact of antimicrobial stewardship program on vancomycin use in a pediatric teaching hospital.
- Benefits of a pediatric antimicrobial stewardship program at a children's hospital.
- Influence of body mass index and antibiotic dose on the risk of surgical site infections in pediatric clean orthopedic surgery.
- Effects of aggregate and individual antibiotic exposure on vancomycin MICs for Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from pediatric patients.
- Chronic primary central nervous system histoplasmosis in a healthy child with intermittent neurological manifestations.
- Validation of two vancomycin nomograms in patients 10 years of age and older.
- The quest for the best metric of antibiotic use and its correlation with the emergence of fluoroquinolone resistance in children.
- Implications and impact of prior authorization policy on vancomycin use at a tertiary pediatric teaching hospital.
- Candida species bloodstream infections in hospitalised children: A 10-year experience.
- Trends of fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli amongst urinary isolates in children: a 10 year surveillance study.
- Phototoxicity, Pseudoporphyria, and Photo-onycholysis Due to Voriconazole in a Pediatric Patient With Leukemia and Invasive Aspergillosis.
Dr. M. Cecilia Di pentima MD's Practice location
Practice At A. I. Dupont Hospital For Children 1600 Rockland Road
A. I. Dupont Hospital For Children 1600 Rockland Road -Wilmington, DE 19803Get Direction
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