Dr. Joanne Therese Maffei MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
136 S Roman St 2nd Floor New Orleans LA, 70112About
Dr. Joanne Maffei is an infectious disease specialist practicing in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Maffei 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- A case of disseminated cryptococcosis with skin manifestations in a patient with newly diagnosed HIV.
- Vaccination with streptococcal extracellular cysteine protease (interleukin-1 beta convertase) protects mice against challenge with heterologous group A streptococci.
- Real-time molecular epidemiologic analysis of an outbreak of Streptococcus
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