Dr. Charles Robert Vitek M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1670 Clairmont Rd 151-P Decatur GA, 30033About
Dr. Charles Vitek is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Decatur, GA. Dr. Vitek 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
Univ of Ca, Los Angeles, Ucla Sch of Med, Los Angeles Ca 1980
University of California 1980
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Diphtheria surveillance and control in the Former Soviet Union and the Newly Independent States.
- Diphtheria in the Russian Federation in the 1990s.
- Epidemic diphtheria in Belarus, 1992-1997.
- Epidemic diphtheria in the 1990s: Azerbaijan.
- Diphtheria epidemic in the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1993-1996.
- Diphtheria in Thailand in the 1990s.
- Increase in deaths from pertussis among young infants in the United States in the 1990s.
- Trends in pertussis among infants in the United States, 1980-1999.
- Diphtheria.
- Slowing of the HIV epidemic in Ukraine: evidence from case reporting and key population surveys, 2005-2012.
- Behaviors Associated With a Risk of HIV Transmission From HIV-Positive Street Youth to Non-Street Youth in Ukraine.
- Decline in HIV seroprevalence in street youth 2006-2012, St. Petersburg, Russia: moving toward an AIDS-free generation.
- Evidence against infection with hantaviruses among forest and park workers in the
- Diphtheria in the former Soviet Union: reemergence of a pandemic disease.
- Risk of diphtheria among schoolchildren in the Russian Federation in relation to time since last vaccination.
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