
Dr. Frank J Bia MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
800 Howard Ave Yale Physicians Buil New Haven CT, 06519About
Dr. Frank Bia is an infectious disease specialist practicing in New Haven, CT. Dr. Bia 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
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The International Health Program: the fifteen-year experience with Yale University's Internal Medicine Residency Program.
- Patterns of infection in patients maintained on long-term peritoneal dialysis therapy with multiple episodes of peritonitis.
- Severe Legionella pneumophila pneumonia in a patient with iron overload.
- Malaria prophylaxis: taking aim at constantly moving targets.
- Current prevention and management of acute mountain sickness.
- Trends and controversies in the prophylaxis and treatment of malaria.
- Special health considerations for travelers.
- Displaced bacterial colonies indicating Strongyloides larval migration on agar plates.
- Coming of age in travel medicine and tropical diseases: a need for continued advocacy and mentorship.
- Comparison of enzyme-linked immunosorbent and indirect immunofluorescence assays for the detection of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-I antibodies in sera from rural Haiti.
- Mycobacterium chelonae-Mycobacterium abscessus complex clear corneal wound infection with recurrent hypopyon and perforation after phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation.
- Medical considerations for the pregnant traveler.
- Pediatric cerebral malaria in Accra, Ghana.
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