Dr. Donald A Goldmann MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
300 Longwood Ave Children's Hospital Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Donald Goldmann is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Goldmann 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1969
Harvard Medical School 1969
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Isolation and chemical characterization of a capsular polysaccharide antigen shared by clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecalis and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium.
- Coagulase-negative staphylococci: role as pathogens.
- Resistance movement: the antibiotic crisis in hospitals.
- Broadly protective vaccine for Staphylococcus aureus based on an in vivo-expressed antigen.
- Quality of care at a children's hospital: the parent's perspective.
- Occurrence of nosocomial bloodstream infections in six neonatal intensive care units.
- Prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy of antibodies to a capsular polysaccharide shared among vancomycin-sensitive and -resistant enterococci.
- Vaccine potential of poly-1-6 beta-D-N-succinylglucosamine, an immunoprotective surface polysaccharide of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis.
- Transmission of viral respiratory infections in the home.
- Epidemiology and prevention of pediatric viral respiratory infections in health-care institutions.
- Reality check: should we use vancomycin for the prophylaxis of intravascular catheter-associated infections?
- Medication errors and adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients.
- An international survey of practice variation in the use of antibiotic
- Control of multiply resistant cocci: do international comparisons help?
- Pediatric hospitalists: what do we know, and where do we go from here?
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