
Dr. Harold W. Horowitz M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Nyu School Of Medicine, Division Of Infectious Disease 550 First Avenue, Nb New York NY, 10016About
Dr. Harold Horowitz is an infectious disease specialist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Horowitz 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
New York Univ Sch of Med, New York Ny 1979
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Atovaquone compared with dapsone to prevent Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
- Concomitant human immunodeficiency virus protease inhibitor therapy markedly reduces tacrolimus metabolism and increases blood levels.
- Infection-control measures reduce transmission of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in an endemic setting.
- Millennial child: intern's admission note, November 17, 2150.
- Thrombocytopenia and Borrelia burgdorferi: an association remains unproven.
- Laboratory methods of diagnosis of syphilis for the beginning of the third millennium.
- Adherence to prescription medications among medical professionals.
- Comparison of two recombinant major outer membrane proteins of the human granulocytic ehrlichiosis agent for use in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
- Risk of hepatitis E infection to travelers.
- Antimicrobial susceptibility of Ehrlichia phagocytophila.
- Costs and savings associated with infection control measures that reduced transmission of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in an endemic setting.
- Dexamethasone inhibits CD4 T cell deletion mediated by macrophages from human immunodeficiency virus-infected persons.
- Western blot analysis of sera reactive to human monocytic ehrlichiosis and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis agents.
- Analysis of sequences and loci of p44 homologs expressed by Anaplasma phagocytophila in acutely infected patients.
- A piece of my mind. The three-legged stool.
Fellowships
- Tufts University (Infectious Disease), Clinical Fellowships 1984
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