Dr. Michael James Mugavero MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
619 19th St S Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. Michael Mugavero is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Mugavero 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Late diagnosis of HIV infection: the role of age and sex.
- Nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor dosing errors in an outpatient HIV clinic in the electronic medical record era.
- The influence of psychosocial characteristics and race/ethnicity on the use, duration, and success of antiretroviral therapy.
- Minorities, the poor, and survivors of abuse: HIV-infected patients in the US deep South.
- Clinical inertia in the management of low-density lipoprotein abnormalities in an HIV clinic.
- Increased regimen durability in the era of once-daily fixed-dose combination antiretroviral therapy.
- Coping strategies and patterns of alcohol and drug use among HIV-infected patients in the United States Southeast.
- The therapeutic implications of timely linkage and early retention in HIV care.
- Improving engagement in HIV care: what can we do?
- Effect of baseline CD4 cell counts on the clinical significance of short-term immunologic response to antiretroviral therapy in individuals with virologic suppression.
- Comparative efficacy versus effectiveness of initial antiretroviral therapy in clinical trials versus routine care.
- Bone changes and fracture risk in individuals infected with HIV.
- Incident stressful and traumatic life events and human immunodeficiency virus sexual transmission risk behaviors in a longitudinal, multisite cohort study.
- Cost ramifications of increased reporting of detectable plasma HIV-1 RNA levels by the Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 version 1.0 viral load test.
- From access to engagement: measuring retention in outpatient HIV clinical care.
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Fellowships
- Duke University Medical Center 2003
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