Dr. Robert Thomson Ball MD MPH FACP
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4050 Bridge View Drive #600- Sc Dhec North Charleston SC, 29405About
Dr. Robert Ball is an infectious disease specialist practicing in North Charleston, SC. Dr. Ball 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
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine 1970
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Protecting patients from surgical hepatitis C virus infection.
- Influenza: seasonal and pandemic--why we should be concerned.
- Appropriate medical standards of crisis care.
- SC Pandemic Influenza Ethics Taskforce guidelines.
- Radiation, other disasters, and crisis standards of care for South Carolina physicians.
- Respiratory virus detection: beyond influenza and RSV into emerging infectious diseases.
- Emerging infectious diseases as public health threats.
- Mathematical modeling of nicotine and cotinine as biological markers of environmental tobacco smoke exposure.
- HIV post-exposure prophylaxis: complex issues in health care worker management.
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