Dr. Rhonda Gaye Kost M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1230 York Ave Box 327 New York NY, 10065About
Dr. Rhonda Kost is an infectious disease specialist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Kost 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 1985
Harvard Medical School 1985
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Research ethics education for community-engaged research: a review and research agenda.
- Accrual Index: A Real-Time Measure of the Timeliness of Clinical Study Enrollment.
- Varicella-zoster virus gene 63: transcript mapping and regulatory activity.
- Placebo-controlled trial of vaccination with recombinant glycoprotein D of herpes simplex virus type 2 for immunotherapy of genital herpes.
- Brief report: recurrent acyclovir-resistant genital herpes in an immunocompetent patient.
- Postherpetic neuralgia--pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention.
- Postherpetic neuralgia. Predicting and preventing risk.
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