Dr. Allen Thomas Griffin M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1301 Pleasant Valley Rd Suite 405 Owensboro KY, 42303About
Dr. Allen Griffin is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Owensboro, KY. Dr. Griffin 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- Review of metabolic, immunologic, and virologic consequences of suboptimal vitamin D levels in HIV infection.
- Q fever endocarditis: an unusual presentation.
- Streptococcus anginosus group and osteomyelitis: a single centre clinical experience.
- An unusual etiology of post-traumatic meningitis.
- Risk factors for cardiovascular events in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
- Tigecycline in the management of osteomyelitis: a case series from the bone and joint infection (BAJIO) database.
- Fusobacterium spondylodiscitis: case report and literature review.
- Urine antigen tests for the diagnosis of respiratory infections: legionellosis, histoplasmosis, pneumococcal pneumonia.
- Update on fungal diagnostics.
- Filamentous Fungi.
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