Dr. Pranatharthi H Chandrasekar MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4201 St Antoine Suite 7b Detroit MI, 48201Rating
5/5
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Dr. Pranatharthi Chandrasekar is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Detroit, MI. Dr. Chandrasekar 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
Drexel University College of Medicine 1983
Christian Medical College 1974
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effect of zinc supplementation on incidence of infections and hospital admissions in sickle cell disease (SCD).
- Reduced susceptibility in laboratory-selected mutants of Aspergillus fumigatus to itraconazole due to decreased intracellular accumulation of the antifungal agent.
- Proton-pumping-ATPase-targeted antifungal activity of a novel conjugated styryl ketone.
- Identification and treatment of herpes lesions.
- Successful treatment of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium bacteremia with linezolid after failure of treatment with synercid (quinupristin/dalfopristin).
- Efficacy of voriconazole against invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in a guinea-pig model.
- Aspergillus: an increasing problem in tertiary care hospitals?
- Duration of symptoms and plasma cytokine levels in patients with the common cold treated with zinc acetate. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
- A comparative study of the in vitro susceptibilities of clinical and laboratory-selected resistant isolates of Aspergillus spp. to amphotericin B, itraconazole, voriconazole and posaconazole (SCH 56592).
- Cefepime versus ceftazidime as empiric therapy for fever in neutropenic patients with cancer.
- Empirical antifungal therapy for persistent fever in patients with neutropenia.
- Low infectious morbidity after intensive chemotherapy and autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation in the outpatient setting for women with breast cancer.
- Inhibition of H(+)-ATPase-mediated proton pumping in Cryptococcus neoformans by a novel conjugated styryl ketone.
- Isolation and in vitro susceptibility to amphotericin B, itraconazole and
- Resistance to amphotericin B does not emerge during treatment for invasive aspergillosis.
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