Dr. Duane Russell Hospenthal MD, PHD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3851 Roger Brooke Drive, Brooke Army Medical Center Mche-Qd (credentials San Antonio TX, 78234About
Dr. Duane Hospenthal is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Hospenthal 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Treatment of hydrocephalus secondary to cryptococcal meningitis by use of shunting.
- Herpes virus infections occur frequently following treatment with fludarabine: results of a prospective natural history study.
- Persistence of cryptococcomas on neuroimaging.
- Empiric immunization versus serologic screening: developing a cost-effective
- Disseminated infection?
- Nosocomial transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a blinded study to establish baseline acquisition rates.
- Adverse response to pegylated interferon therapy in two patients with chronic hepatitis C.
- Direct comparison of the BACTEC 9240 and BacT/ALERT 3D automated blood culture systems for candida growth detection.
- Broth microdilution susceptibility testing for Leptospira spp.
- Treatment of meningeal coccidioidomycosis with caspofungin.
- Determination of susceptibilities of 26 Leptospira sp. serovars to 24 antimicrobial agents by a broth microdilution technique.
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nares colonization at hospital admission and its effect on subsequent MRSA infection.
- Susceptibility of Leptospira serovars to antimalarial agents.
- Effect of inoculum size on detection of Candida growth by the BACTEC 9240 automated blood culture system using aerobic and anaerobic media.
- Coccidioidomycosis of the male reproductive tract.
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