Dr. Richard M Mandel MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
5240 E Knight Dr Suite 114 Tucson AZ, 85712About
Dr. Richard Mandel is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Tucson, AZ. Dr. Mandel 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
New York University School of Medicine 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Laryngeal involvement in disseminated coccidioidomycosis.
- Infectious diseases. Old diseases return and new agents emerge.
- Sources of energy and six nutrients in diets of low-income Hispanic-American women and their children: quantitative data from HHANES, 1982-1984.
- More than 10 years of unrecognized nosocomial transmission of legionnaires' disease among transplant patients.
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