Dr. Sybil Alice Tasker M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
8901 Wisconsin Ave Bethesda MD, 20889About
Dr. Sybil Tasker is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Tasker 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
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1988
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Correlates of human herpesvirus-8 seropositivity among U.S. military members recently infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
- Safety and immunogenicity of an inactivated hepatitis A vaccine among HIV-infected subjects.
- Vaccination in patients with HIV infection.
- Trauma-related infections in battlefield casualties from Iraq.
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