Dr. Johan Septimus Bakken MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1001 E Superior St Suite L201 Duluth MN, 55802Rating
5/5
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Dr. Johan Bakken is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Duluth, MN. Dr. Bakken 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
Univ of Wa Sch of Med, Seattle Wa 1972
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Serum cytokine responses during acute human granulocytic ehrlichiosis.
- Recurrent Clostridium difficile colitis: case series involving 18 patients treated with donor stool administered via a nasogastric tube.
- Analysis of genetic identity of North American Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
- Successful treatment of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in children using rifampin.
- Babesiosis and HIV.
- The fluoroquinolones: how long will their utility last?
- Human granulocytic anaplasmosis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum.
- Human granulocytic anaplasmosis and macrophage activation.
- Ehrlichioses in humans: epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment.
- Human granulocytic anaplasmosis.
- Resolution of recurrent Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea using staggered
- Fecal bacteriotherapy for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection.
- A novel chromosomal TEM derivative and alterations in outer membrane proteins together mediate selective ceftazidime resistance in Escherichia coli.
- [Home treatment with parenteral antibiotics--a treatment alternative for Scandinavian patients?].
- Fecal microbiome transplantation for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection: report on a case series.
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