Dr. Mark Gregory Kortepeter MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
6900 Georgia Avenue Bldg 2 Ward 63 Walte Washington DC, 20307About
Dr. Mark Kortepeter is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Kortepeter 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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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Potential biological weapons threats.
- Disease prevention while deployed.
- Tuberculosis infection after humanitarian assistance, Guantanamo Bay, 1995.
- Recent challenges in infectious diseases. Biological pathogens as weapons and emerging endemic threats.
- Experience in the medical management of potential laboratory exposures to agents of bioterrorism on the basis of risk assessment at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).
- Risk of occupationally acquired illnesses from biological threat agents in unvaccinated laboratory workers.
- Discernment between deliberate and natural infectious disease outbreaks.
- Acinetobacter pneumonia: a review.
- MRI: my resonant image.
- Multiple fractures of the symphysis pubis due to tuberculous osteomyelitis.
- Basic clinical and laboratory features of filoviral hemorrhagic fever.
- Sulfur mustard: a liquid, not a gas.
- Human papillomavirus seroprevalence among men entering military service and seroincidence after ten years of service.
- Health care response to CCHF in US soldier and nosocomial transmission to health care providers, Germany, 2009.
- Necrotizing Scleritis, Conjunctivitis, and Other Pathologic Findings in the Left Eye and Brain of an Ebola Virus-Infected Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) With Apparent Recovery and a Delayed Time of Death.
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