Dr. David L Longworth MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3300 Main St 3rd Fl Suite C&d Springfield MA, 01199Rating
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Dr. David Longworth is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Springfield, MA. Dr. Longworth 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- Should prophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in solid organ transplant recipients ever be discontinued?
- Evolving concepts in the management of patients with neutropenia and fever.
- Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome in a patient with neurosarcoidosis.
- Candida (Torulopsis) glabrata septic arthritis.
- Ureaplasma urealyticum: unusual cause of culture-negative mediastinitis.
- Diagnosis and management of infections involving implantable electrophysiologic cardiac devices.
- Infectious complications of advanced cancer.
- Microbial drug resistance and the roles of the new antibiotics.
- Bioterrorism: what practicing physicians can do.
- Venous thrombosis associated with peripherally inserted central catheters: a retrospective analysis of the Cleveland Clinic experience.
- Infections of intracardiac devices.
- The incidence of invasive aspergillosis among solid organ transplant recipients and implications for prophylaxis in lung transplants.
- Antimicrobial resistance in Cairo, Egypt 1999-2000: a survey of five hospitals.
- Risk stratification and bedside prognostication in infective endocarditis.
- Infections of intracardiac devices.
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