Dr. Gonzalo Rafael Ballon-landa M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4136 Bachman Pl San Diego CA, 92103About
Dr. Gonzalo Ballon-landa is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Diego, CA. Dr. Ballon-landa 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
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Necrotizing fasciitis due to penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae: case report and review of the literature.
- Experimental allergic neuritis in Lewis rats: altered pattern of disease induced by pertussis vaccine.
- Experimental allergic neuritis in Lewis rats: altered pattern of disease induced by pertussis vaccine.
- Aeromonas hydrophila gas gangrene: a case report of management with surgery and hyperbaric oxygenation.
Treatments
- Fever
- Tuberculosis
- Fungal Infection
- Pneumonia
- Hives
- Gastroenteritis
- Cellulitis
- Urinary Tract Infection (uti)
- Meningitis
- Osteomyelitis
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