Dr. Walter A. Orenstein MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1462 Clifton Rd Ne Rm 446, Dental Bldg Atlanta GA, 30322About
Dr. Walter Orenstein is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Orenstein 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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PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Immunible diseases of childhood.
- Pertussis in adults: epidemiology, signs, symptoms, and implications for vaccination.
- Vaccines. Overview.
- The immunization system in the United States - the role of school immunization laws.
- Successful control of vaccine-preventable diseases requires more than vaccines.
- The future of the National Immunization Survey.
- Current status of mumps in the United States.
- Vaccination policies and programs: the federal government's role in making the system work.
- Stopping a polio outbreak in the post-eradication era.
- Development of pediatric vaccine recommendations and policies.
- Childhood immunization: laws that work.
- When, where, and how do immunizations fail?
- Measles surveillance--United States, 1991.
- Workshop on smallpox legal preparedness: what have we learned from smallpox legal preparedness?
- Defining and assessing measles elimination goals.
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