Dr. Ronald C Hershow M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1740 W Taylor St Chicago IL, 60612About
Dr. Ronald Hershow is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Chicago, IL. Dr. Hershow 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
Suny At Stony Brook Hlth Sci Ctr, Stony Brook Ny 1978
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ciprofloxacin resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: associated factors and resistance to other antibiotics.
- The natural history of hepatitis D virus infection in Illinois state facilities for the developmentally disabled.
- Effects of human T-lymphotropic virus type II on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 phenotypic evolution.
- HIV seropositivity in community-recruited and drug treatment samples of injecting drug users.
- A comparison of clinical virulence of nosocomially acquired methicillin-resistant and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus infections in a university hospital.
- Effect of hard-drug use on CD4 cell percentage, HIV RNA level, and progression to AIDS-defining class C events among HIV-infected women.
- The relationship between vaccine refusal and self-report of atopic disease in children.
- Drug use and HIV risk practices of secondary and primary needle exchange users.
- Mode of delivery and postpartum HIV-1 disease progression: the Women and Infants Transmission Study.
- Colonization or infection with multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii may be an independent risk factor for increased mortality.
- Cervicovaginal levels of lactoferrin, secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor, and RANTES and the effects of coexisting vaginoses in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-seronegative women with a high risk of heterosexual acquisition of HIV infection.
- One medicine, one university: the DVM/MPH program at the University of Illinois.
- Lessons learned from Chicago's emergency response to mass evacuations caused by Hurricane Katrina.
- Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase in long-term care facility, Illinois, USA.
- Increased risk of hepatotoxicity in HIV-infected pregnant women receiving antiretroviral therapy independent of nevirapine exposure.
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