Dr. Gary L Lattimer MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
17 Durban Pl Hilton Head Island SC, 29926About
Dr. Gary Lattimer is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Hilton Head Island, SC. Dr. Lattimer 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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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Delayed red neck syndrome with generic vancomycin.
- Legionnaires' disease: antigenic peculiarities, strain differences, and antibiotic sensitivities of the agent.
- Legionnaires' disease: antigenic peculiarities, strain differences, and antibiotic sensitivities of the agent.
- Diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease from transtracheal aspirate by direct fluorescent-antibody staining and isolation of the bacterium.
- Diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease from transtracheal aspirate by direct fluorescent-antibody staining and isolation of the bacterium.
- Serology of Legionnaires disease: comparison of indirect fluorescent antibody, immune adherence hemagglutination, and indirect hemagglutination tests.
- Serology of Legionnaires disease: comparison of indirect fluorescent antibody, immune adherence hemagglutination, and indirect hemagglutination tests.
- Legionnaires' disease pneumonia: histopathologic features and comparison with microbial and chemical pneumonias.
- Legionnaires' disease pneumonia: histopathologic features and comparison with microbial and chemical pneumonias.
- Legionella and Legionnaires' disease: "through a glass darkly".
- Seroreactivity to Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Legionella pneumophila: lack of a statistically significant relationship.
- Legionnaires' disease serology. Effect of antigen preparation on specificity and sensitivity of the indirect fluorescent antibody test.
- Legionnaires' disease legacies.
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