Dr. Edith Rachel Lederman MD, MPH
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
34800 Bob Wilson Dr Bldg 1, 2 West San Diego CA, 92134About
Dr. Edith Lederman is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Diego, CA. Dr. Lederman 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
New York Univ Sch of Med, New York Ny 1997
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A case series and focused review of nocardiosis: clinical and microbiologic aspects.
- Pyogenic liver abscess with a focus on Klebsiella pneumoniae as a primary pathogen: an emerging disease with unique clinical characteristics.
- Klebsiella liver abscess: a coast-to-coast phenomenon.
- Infections associated with tumor necrosis factor-alpha antagonists.
- Production and validation of durable, high quality standardized malaria microscopy slides for teaching, testing and quality assurance during an era of declining diagnostic proficiency.
- ORF virus infection in children: clinical characteristics, transmission, diagnostic methods, and future therapeutics.
- Prevalence of antibodies against orthopoxviruses among residents of Likouala region, Republic of Congo: evidence for monkeypox virus exposure.
- Dermatologic conditions of the ill returned traveler: an analysis from the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network.
- Resonant photoascoustic noise reduction by phase balancing.
- Risk factors for severe Rift Valley fever infection in Kenya, 2007.
- Risk factors associated with complications and mortality in patients with Clostridium difficile infection.
- Disseminated verrucous varicella zoster with exclusive follicular involvement.
- Impact of the 2013 revised Centers for Disease Control and Prevention central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) surveillance definition on inpatient hospital CLABSI rates: is it enough?
- An Investigation of a Cluster of Parapoxvirus Cases in Missouri, Feb-May 2006: Epidemiologic, Clinical and Molecular Aspects.
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