Dr. Dale N. Gerding M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Bldg 1, Rm C344 Hines Va Hospital Hines IL, 60141About
Dr. Dale Gerding is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Hines, IL. Dr. Gerding 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 Mn Med Sch-Minneapolis, Minneapolis Mn 1968
University of Mn Med Sch 1968
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cephalosporin and aminoglycoside concentrations in peritoneal capsular fluid in rabbits.
- Epidemics of diarrhea caused by a clindamycin-resistant strain of Clostridium difficile in four hospitals.
- The penetration of antibiotics into peritoneal fluid.
- Antimicrobial cycling: lessons learned from the aminoglycoside experience.
- Fecal incontinence in hospitalized patients who are acutely ill.
- Good antimicrobial stewardship in the hospital: fitting, but flagrantly flagging.
- Treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea and colitis.
- Metronidazole resistance in Clostridium difficile.
- Toxin gene analysis of a variant strain of Clostridium difficile that causes human clinical disease.
- Staphylococcal endocarditis in narcotic addicts. Diagnosis and treatment.
- Infection of hamsters with epidemiologically important strains of Clostridium difficile.
- The search for good antimicrobial stewardship.
- Fatal pseudomembranous colitis associated with a variant clostridium difficile strain not detected by toxin A immunoassay.
- Treatment of Pseudomonas endophthalmitis associated with prosthetic intraocular lens implantation.
- Treatment of Pseudomonas endophthalmitis associated with prosthetic intraocular lens implantation.
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