Dr. Thomas M File MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
75 Arch St. Suite 506 Akron OH, 44304Rating
4/5
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Dr. Thomas File is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Akron, OH. Dr. File 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
Univ of Mi Med Sch, Ann Arbor Mi 1972
University of Michigan Medical School 1972
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Overview of resistance in the 1990s.
- Levofloxacin in the treatment of community acquired pneumonia.
- Parainfluenza virus infection among adults hospitalized for lower respiratory tract infection.
- Clinical characteristics of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection as the sole cause of community-acquired pneumonia.
- The radiologic manifestations of Legionnaire's disease. The Ohio Community-Based Pneumonia Incidence Study Group.
- Group A streptococcus necrotizing fasciitis.
- Diagnosis and treatment of diabetic foot infections.
- The epidemiology of respiratory tract infections.
- Efficacy and safety of gemifloxacin 320 mg once-daily for 7 days in the treatment of adult lower respiratory tract infections.
- Efficacy and safety of gemifloxacin in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia: a randomized, double-blind comparison with trovafloxacin.
- Optimal treatment strategies for community-acquired pneumonia: non-responders to conventional regimens.
- Judicious use of antibiotics to treat respiratory tract infections.
- Etiology and management of community-acquired pneumonia in Asia.
- Legionnaires disease with bacteremic coinfection.
- Oral gemifloxacin versus sequential therapy with intravenous ceftriaxone/oral cefuroxime with or without a macrolide in the treatment of patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia: a randomized, open-label, multicenter study of clinical
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