Dr. Walter Watson Karney M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2000 Dennis Ave Silver Spring MD, 20902About
Dr. Walter Karney is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Silver Spring, MD. Dr. Karney 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
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1962
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Spectinomycin versus tetracycline for the treatment of gonorrhea.
- Spectinomycin versus tetracycline for the treatment of gonorrhea.
- Comparison of single-dose tetracycline hydrochloride to conventional therapy of urinary tract infections.
- The spectrum of tuberculous peritonitis.
- The spectrum of tuberculous peritonitis.
- Cefazolin in the treatment of bacterial pneumonia.
- Cefazolin in the treatment of gonorrhea.
- Single-dose oral therapy for uncomplicated gonorrhea: comparison of amoxicillin and ampicillin given with and without probenecid.
- Malabsorption in Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
- Comparative therapeutic and pharmacological evaluation of amoxicillin and ampicillin plus probenecid for the treatment of gonorrhea.
- Single doses of methacycline and doxycycline for gonorrhea: a cooperative study
- Evaluation of cefazolin, a new cephalosporin antibiotic.
- Clinical significance of serum antibody responses to exotoxin A and type-specific lipopolysaccharides in patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.
- Chlamydia trachomatis: an uncommon cause of cystourethritis in female dependents of military personnel.
- Cohort study of venereal disease. I: the risk of gonorrhea transmission from infected women to men.
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