Dr. Duc Jackson Vugia M.D.
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
850 Marina Bay Pkwy Building P, 2nd Floo Richmond CA, 94804About
Duc Vugia is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Richmond, CA. Vugia specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Vugia participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
University of California 1981
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Declining CD4+ T-lymphocyte counts are associated with increased risk of enteric
- An outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection from unpasteurized commercial
- Two outbreaks of multidrug-resistant Salmonella serotype typhimurium DT104 infections linked to raw-milk cheese in Northern California.
- An outbreak of Salmonella serogroup Saphra due to cantaloupes from Mexico.
- Epidemiologic relation between HIV and invasive pneumococcal disease in San Francisco County, California.
- Mortality from invasive pneumococcal pneumonia in the era of antibiotic resistance, 1995-1997.
- Acute hepatitis E infection acquired in California.
- The impact of health communication and enhanced laboratory-based surveillance on detection of cyclosporiasis outbreaks in California.
- Wound botulism in California, 1951-1998: recent epidemic in heroin injectors.
- High incidence of extra-intestinal infections in a Salmonella Havana outbreak associated with alfalfa sprouts.
- Risk of infection from needle reuse at a phlebotomy center.
- Transmission of hepatitis C through tattooing in a United States prison.
- Predominant kidney involvement in a fatal case of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome caused by Sin Nombre virus.
- Complaints of foodborne illness in San Francisco, California, 1998.
- Escherichia coli O157 and Salmonella infections associated with sprouts in California, 1996-1998.
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