Dr. Kenneth R Ratzan M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4300 Alton Rd Greene Pavilion Miami Beach FL, 33140About
Dr. Kenneth Ratzan is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Miami Beach, FL. Dr. Ratzan 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 1965
Harvard Medical School 1965
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Bilateral deep brachial vein thrombophlebitis due to vibrio fetus.
- Chronic osteomyelitis due to Clostridium clostridiiforme.
- Balamuthia mandrillaris and Acanthamoeba amebic encephalitis with neurotoxoplasmosis coinfection in a patient with advanced HIV infection.
- Native valve endocarditis due to Pseudallescheria boydii in a patient with AIDS: case report and review.
- Eosinophilic pleural effusion in cutaneous myiasis.
- Infective endocarditis caused by Neisseria flavescens.
- Viral meningitis.
- Transfusion-associated hepatitis in the United States: an epidemiologic analysis.
- Biliary tract excretion of cefazolin, cephalothin, and cephaloridine in the presence of biliary tract disease.
- An outbreak of gastroenteritis associated with ingestion of raw clams.
- The effect of Listeria monocytogenes on resistance to pneumococcal infection.
- Serratia marcescens bacteremia originating from a catheter line in the left atrium after mitral valve replacement.
- Viral hepatitis: morbidity trends.
- Effect of atropine on tracheal mucociliary clearance and bacterial counts.
- Chemoprophylaxis with cefoxitin and cephalothin in orthopedic surgery: a comparison.
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