Dr. Robert William Tofte MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3960 Coon Rapids Blvd Nw Suite 104 Minneapolis MN, 55433About
Dr. Robert Tofte is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Tofte 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
Tulane Univ Sch of Med, New Orleans La 1973
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- High-dose moxalactam in gram-negative pneumonia.
- Rifampin. No longer just for tuberculosis.
- Opsonic activity of normal human cerebrospinal fluid for selected bacterial species.
- Opsonic activity of normal human cerebrospinal fluid for selected bacterial species.
- Opsonization of four Bacteroides species: role of the classical complement pathway and immunoglobulin.
- Clinical and laboratory manifestations of toxic shock syndrome.
- Toxic shock syndrome.
- Effect of decreased renal function on the pharmacokinetics of ceftazidime.
- Antibiotic-associated colitis during moxalactam therapy.
- Antimicrobial susceptibility of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, Serratia marcescens, Pseudomonas fluorescens and Pseudomonas maltophilia to three novel cephalosporin-like antibiotics.
- Aeromonas hydrophila wound infection of the hand initially presenting as clostridial myonecrosis.
- Influence of serum concentration on opsonization by the classical and alternative complement pathways.
- Primary cutaneous Nocardia asteroides infection with dissemination.
- Toxic shock syndrome: current status and future prospects.
- Aminoglycoside dosing in renal transplant patients. Comparison of nomogram and individualized pharmacokinetic methods in patients with shifting renal function.
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