Dr. Deverick John Anderson MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4101 N Roxboro St Durham NC, 27704About
Dr. Deverick Anderson is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Durham, NC. Dr. Anderson 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- Changing patient characteristics and the effect on mortality in endocarditis.
- A returning traveler with fever and rash.
- The deadly toll of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in community hospitals.
- Inappropriate therapy for staphylococcal infection is common and commonly fatal.
- Whither infection control in community hospitals? Musings about the near future.
- Risk factors for gram-negative bacterial surgical site infection: do allergies to antibiotics increase risk?
- Patient-days: a better measure of incidence of occupational bloodborne exposures.
- Emergence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in community hospitals throughout North Carolina: a harbinger of a wider problem in the United States?
- Recent changes in the NHSN definition for UTI: for better AND worse.
- Prevention of surgical-site infections.
- Current definitions of central line-associated bloodstream infection: is the emperor wearing clothes?
- Measuring the effect of inappropriate initial antibiotic therapy on outcomes of patients with Gram-negative sepsis: An imprecise science.
- Blood culture contamination with Enterococci and skin organisms: implications for surveillance definitions of primary bloodstream infections.
- Surgical site infections.
- Comparison of the burdens of hospital-onset, healthcare facility-associated Clostridium difficile Infection and of healthcare-associated infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in community hospitals.
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