Dr. Michael Kent Leonard MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4539 Hedgemore Dr Suite 100 Charlotte NC, 28209About
Dr. Michael Leonard is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Leonard 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Brief report: tuberculosis sepsis and activated protein C.
- Hospital acquired blood-stream infections among intensive care unit (ICU) Patients in Tbilisi, Georgia.
- Etiology of neonatal blood stream infections in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.
- Acute forms of tuberculosis in adults.
- Risk factors of mortality in septic newborns in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Tbilisi, the Republic of Georgia.
- High mortality among patients with positive blood cultures at a children's hospital in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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