Physician

Infectious Disease

Dr. Kenneth G. Castro, MD

Kenneth Castro is an expert in the field of Infectious Disease. He attended Stony Brook University School of Medicine. Doctor Kenneth G. Castro, MD is also published. He has 32 publications published. The lastest publication: "Tuberculosis Infection in the United States: Prevalence Estimates from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011-2012.'

Publications

Evaluation of the Cepheid Xpert MTB/RIF assay.
Challenges and controversies in defining totally drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Is it time to replace the tuberculin skin test with a blood test?
Epidemic intelligence service investigations of respiratory illness, 1946-2005.
Unexpected decline in tuberculosis cases coincident with economic recession -- United States, 2009.
Bridging implementation, knowledge, and ambition gaps to eliminate tuberculosis in the United States and globally.
Do we have evidence for policy changes in the treatment of children with latent tuberculosis infection?
No man is an island: reducing diagnostic delays in undocumented foreign-born persons is needed to decrease the risk of tuberculosis transmission.
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the United States, 1993-2007.
Prevalence of tuberculosis infection in the United States population: the national health and nutrition examination survey, 1999-2000.
Trends in tuberculosis/human immunodeficiency virus comorbidity, United States, 1993-2004.
Randomized trials to optimize treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
HIV infection and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: the perfect storm.
Tuberculosis surveillance: data for decision-making.
Safety of the rifampin and pyrazinamide short-course regimen for treating latent tuberculosis infection.
Protecting the public's health against tuberculosis. Moving forward.
Tuberculosis among foreign-born persons in the United States: achieving tuberculosis elimination.
Towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support: the role of tuberculosis/HIV collaboration.
Improved program activities are associated with decreasing tuberculosis incidence in the United States.
Commentary on the risk of active tuberculosis.
Severe or fatal liver injury in 50 patients in the United States taking rifampin and pyrazinamide for latent tuberculosis infection.
National survey to measure rates of liver injury, hospitalization, and death associated with rifampin and pyrazinamide for latent tuberculosis infection.
Epidemiology of tuberculosis in the United States.
New guidelines about latent tuberculosis infection in children and adolescents: a welcome advancement.
The Arden House Conference on Tuberculosis, revisited: perspectives for tuberculosis elimination in the United States.
Epidemiology of tuberculosis.
Fatal liver injury associated with rifampin-pyrazinamide treatment of latent tuberculosis infection.
Rationale and methods for the National Tuberculosis Genotyping and Surveillance Network.
Pediatric tuberculosis: all in the family?
Factors in tuberculosis contact investigations.
Tuberculosis Infection in the United States: Prevalence Estimates from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011-2012.

Schools

State University of New York Health Science Center At Stony Brook

Doctors Specialties

Infectious Disease Medicine
Infectious Disease

Accepted Insurances

Education

Albert Einstein - Montefiore Medical Center
Stony Brook University School of Medicine

Hospital

Grady Memorial Hospital

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