Dr. Rabih O Darouiche M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2002 Holcombe Blvd Room 4b-370 Houston TX, 77030About
Dr. Rabih Darouiche is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Houston, TX. Dr. Darouiche 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prevention of vascular catheter-related infections.
- Anti-infective efficacy of silver-coated medical prostheses.
- Direct confocal microscopy studies of the bacterial colonization in vitro of a
- Infection-resistant alloplasts.
- Characterization of a fish antimicrobial peptide: gene expression, subcellular localization, and spectrum of activity.
- Bacterial interference for prevention of urinary tract infection: an overview.
- Tuberculous pericarditis: optimal diagnosis and management.
- Device-associated infections: a macroproblem that starts with microadherence.
- Diagnosis of catheter-related bloodstream infections: is it necessary to culture the subcutaneous catheter segment?
- Antimicrobial activity of prosthetic heart valve sewing cuffs coated with minocycline and rifampin.
- In-vitro and in-vivo activity of antimicrobial-coated prosthetic heart valve sewing cuffs.
- Skin antisepsis kits containing alcohol and chlorhexidine gluconate or tincture of iodine are associated with low rates of blood culture contamination.
- Role of type 1 fimbria- and P fimbria-specific adherence in colonization of the neurogenic human bladder by Escherichia coli.
- Prevention of urinary tract infection in patients with spinal cord injury.
- Escherichia coli 83972 inhibits catheter adherence by a broad spectrum of uropathogens.
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