Dr. Tobi Beth Karchmer MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
MEDICAL CENTER BLVD WINSTON SALEM NC, 27157About
Dr. Tobi Karchmer is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Karchmer 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1992
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prediction of poorer prognosis by infection with antibiotic-resistant gram-positive cocci than by infection with antibiotic-sensitive strains.
- Cost-effectiveness of active surveillance cultures and contact/droplet precautions for control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Isoniazid-resistant cavitary tuberculosis in a physician following isoniazid prophylaxis.
- Prevention of health care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections: adapting to a changing epidemiology.
- Legislative mandates for use of active surveillance cultures to screen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci: position statement from the Joint SHEA and APIC Task Force.
- Legislative mandates for use of active surveillance cultures to screen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci: Position statement from the Joint SHEA and APIC Task Force.
- Surgical site infection as a surrogate marker of physician impairment.
- Prospective, multicenter evaluation of the BD GeneOhm VanR assay for direct, rapid detection of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus species in perianal and rectal specimens.
- Blood drawn through valved catheter hub connectors carries a significant risk of contamination.
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