Dr. David Tulloch Durack M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1700 Woodstock Rd Durham NC, 27705About
Dr. David Durack is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Durham, NC. Dr. Durack 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
University of Western Australia / School of Medicine 1969
University of Western Australia Faculty of Medicine 1969
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Criteria for the diagnosis of endocarditis and the role of echocardiography.
- Oral microflora as a cause of endocarditis and other distant site infections.
- Letter: Chemoprophylaxis of bacterial endocarditis.
- Chemotherapy of experimental streptococcal endocarditis. IV. Further observations on prophylaxis.
- Experimental bacterial endocarditis. IV. Structure and evolution of very early lesions.
- Diagnostic methods current best practices and guidelines for histologic evaluation in infective endocarditis.
- Molecular methods for diagnosis of infective endocarditis.
- Clinical presentation of infective endocarditis.
- Evaluating and optimizing outcomes of surgery for endocarditis.
- The incidence of infective endocarditis following surgical repair of a major congenital defect varied by type of heart defect.
- Fever of unknown origin--reexamined and redefined.
- Prevention of infective endocarditis: guidelines from the American Heart Association: a guideline from the American Heart Association Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease Committee, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and t
- Prevention of infective endocarditis: guidelines from the American Heart Association: a guideline from the American Heart Association Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis and Kawasaki Disease Committee, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and th
- The cost effectiveness of antiretroviral treatment strategies in resource-limited settings.
- Prevention of infective endocarditis: guidelines from the American Heart Association: a guideline from the American Heart Association Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis and Kawasaki Disease Committee, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and th
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