Dr. Karoll Jose Cortez M,D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
5225 POOKS HILL RD BETHESDA MD, 20814About
Dr. Karoll Cortez is an infectious disease specialist practicing in BETHESDA, MD. Dr. Cortez 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- Successful treatment of coccidioidal meningitis with voriconazole.
- Resources for medical mycology on the World Wide Web.
- Functional genomics of innate host defense molecules in normal human monocytes in response to Aspergillus fumigatus.
- Galactomannan antigen detection in the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis.
- Infections caused by Scedosporium spp.
- Clinical management of HIV drug resistance.
- Beyond interferon: rationale and prospects for newer treatment paradigms for chronic hepatitis C.
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