Dr. Bruce Scott Lavin M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3 John Trout Rd Ringoes NJ, 08551About
Dr. Bruce Lavin is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Ringoes, NJ. Dr. Lavin 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
Uniformed Services Univ Of The Hlth Sci- Bethesda Md 1982
Uniformed Services University of The Health Sciences,Bethesda, Md, United States 1982
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Antibiotic cycling and marketing into the 21st century: a perspective from the pharmaceutical industry.
- Gastrointestinal side effects of intravenous erythromycin: incidence and reduction with prolonged infusion time and glycopyrrolate pretreatment.
- Evaluation of the standardized disk diffusion and agar dilution antibiotic susceptibility test methods by using strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from the United States and Southeast Asia.
- Trends in anti-bacterial resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated in the USA, 2000-2003: PROTEKT US years 1-3.
- Emergence and spread of Streptococcus pneumoniae with erm(B) and mef(A) resistance.
- Syphilis and neurosyphilis in a human immunodeficiency virus type-1 seropositive population: evidence for frequent serologic relapse after therapy.
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