Dr. Kenneth G Castro M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1600 Clifton Rd Ne Mailstop E-10 Atlanta GA, 30329Rating
5/5
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Dr. Kenneth Castro is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Castro 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
State University of New York / Health Science Center At Stony Brook 1980
State University of New York Upstate Medical University 1980
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Factors in tuberculosis contact investigations.
- Pediatric tuberculosis: all in the family?
- Rationale and methods for the National Tuberculosis Genotyping and Surveillance Network.
- Tuberculosis contact investigations.
- Epidemiology of tuberculosis.
- New guidelines about latent tuberculosis infection in children and adolescents: a welcome advancement.
- Epidemiology of tuberculosis in the United States.
- The Arden House Conference on Tuberculosis, revisited: perspectives for tuberculosis elimination in the United States.
- National survey to measure rates of liver injury, hospitalization, and death associated with rifampin and pyrazinamide for latent tuberculosis infection.
- Severe or fatal liver injury in 50 patients in the United States taking rifampin and pyrazinamide for latent tuberculosis infection.
- Commentary on the risk of active tuberculosis.
- Improved program activities are associated with decreasing tuberculosis incidence in the United States.
- Towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support: the role of tuberculosis/HIV collaboration.
- Tuberculosis among foreign-born persons in the United States: achieving tuberculosis elimination.
- Safety of the rifampin and pyrazinamide short-course regimen for treating latent tuberculosis infection.
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