Dr. Stephen Mark Puentes MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
5850 S Main St Room 1127 Los Angeles CA, 90003Rating
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Dr. Stephen Puentes is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Puentes 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 Ca, San Diego, Sch of Med, La Jolla Ca 1980
University of California 1980
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Serum resistance of metacyclic stage Leishmania major promastigotes is due to release of C5b-9.
- Nonimmune binding of human immunoglobulin A to type II group B streptococci.
- Complement binding on serum-sensitive and serum-resistant transformants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: effect of presensitization with a non-bactericidal monoclonal antibody.
- Complement binding by two developmental stages of Leishmania major promastigotes varying in expression of a surface lipophosphoglycan.
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