Dr. Francis Xavier Blais DO
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
5109 West Broad Street Suite 205 Columbus OH, 43228Rating
5/5
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Dr. Francis Blais is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Columbus, OH. Dr. Blais 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
Philadelphia Coll of Osteo Med, Philadelphia Pa 1975
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Treatment costs of directly observed therapy and traditional therapy for Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a comparative analysis.
- Starting therapy for an HIV-infected patient.
- Managing a patient with progressive HIV disease.
- How to recognize patients at risk or infected with HIV.
- Coumarin-induced skin necrosis.
- Postviral bronchial hyperreactivity syndrome: recognizing asthma's great mimic.
- Risk of transmission of hepatitis B to hospital personnel exposed to a chronic HBsAg carrier.
- Appropriate statistical techniques urged.
- Hemolysis by tellurite. I. The tellurite test for hemolysis.
- Movement of personnel and wound contamination.
- Duration of handwashing in intensive care units: a descriptive study.
- Patient isolation practices at a community hospital.
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