Dr. Roger A. Bitar MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4647 Zion Ave San Diego CA, 92120About
Dr. Roger Bitar is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Diego, CA. Dr. Bitar 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- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Utility of the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) Risk Index Score as a Criterion for Nonadmission in Febrile Neutropenic Patients with Solid Tumors.
- Population Effects of Influenza A(H1N1) Pandemic among Health Plan Members, San Diego, California, USA, October-December 2009.
- Kinetics study of immunological response to Clostridium botulinum toxin.
- Accumulation of indium-111-labeled neutrophils and gallium-67 citrate in rabbit abscesses.
- Comparative efficacy of ceftriaxone in experimental infections involving Bacteroides fragilis and Escherichia coli.
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