Dr. Luke Davis is a board-certified pulmonary/critical care physician and epidemiologist using translational research and implementation science to improve diagnostic evaluation and case finding for tuberculosis (TB), a leading cause of death in low- and middle-income countries.
He attends the Medical Intensive Care Unit and the Winchester TB Clinic at Yale-New Haven Hospital as a Yale Medicine physician, and enjoy caring for patients and families, and teaching medical students, residents, and fellows.
Fellowship: Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco (2008)
MS: University of California San Francisco (2008)
Residency: Osler Medical Service, Johns Hopkins Hospital (2003)
MD: Vanderbilt University (2000)
American Board of Internal Medicine
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Tuberculosis starts as a lung infection known as pulmonary tuberculosis, but may also involve other parts of the body, especially the lymph nodes, brain, and bones. And these all are called extra pulmonary tuberculosis. And...
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The good news is that tuberculosis can be cured over 95% of the time. And that is when patients have drug susceptible TB. Even drug resistant TB, which used to have a very high mortality...
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The most common signs and symptoms of tuberculosis include cough, fever, chills, night sweats, or weight loss, especially when these symptoms persist for two weeks or more. Symptoms and signs of TB vary greatly between...
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Surgery is only rarely needed to manage TB, such as in the case of severe TB of the spine that might require some stabilization or in the case of drug resistant TB, in which antibiotics...
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Perhaps the biggest challenge for people with TB is the stigma that’s associated with it. TB is well-known to have been a problem in history and only in the 1950s did we get successful treatment....
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Tuberculosis, commonly known as TB, is a serious bacterial lung infection that may also affect many other parts of the body. For many years, tuberculosis has been the leading cause of infectious death worldwide, surpassed...
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Tuberculosis, which we’ll also call TB, is spread from person to person when someone who is ill with TB coughs and the bacteria are scattered in aerosols that float in the air. If someone’s sitting...
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Tuberculosis patients benefit from support from friends and family, including food while they’re isolated early in treatment, as well as encouragement, because taking daily medications for TB is quite difficult throughout the long course that’s...
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Active tuberculosis is diagnosed using a microscope or a molecular genetic test to rapidly identify these MTB bacteria in a sputum sample that’s coughed up from the lungs. MTB bacteria can also be grown from...
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Tuberculosis is caused by a slow growing bacteria called mycobacteria tuberculosis. This is also known as MTB. Extended, close indoor contact with someone with active TB is the major risk factor for TB. For example,...
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