Dr. Karen S Slobod MD
Infectious Disease Specialist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Infectious Diseases
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 332 N Lauderdale St. Memphis TN, 38105About
Dr. Karen Slobod is a pediatric infectious disease specialist practicing in Memphis, TN. Dr. Slobod specializes in recurring or persistent diseases caused by bacteria, parasites or fungus in infants, children and adolescents. Pediatric infectious disease specialists also provide consultation to other health care professionals dealing with complex cases.
Education and Training
Mc Gill Univ- Fac Of Med- Montreal- Que- Canada 1986
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Adoptive immunotherapy.
- Multi-envelope HIV vaccine safety and immunogenicity in small animals and chimpanzees.
- Oral cefixime is similar to continued intravenous antibiotics in the empirical treatment of febrile neutropenic children with cancer.
- Localization of CD4+ T cell epitope hotspots to exposed strands of HIV envelope glycoprotein suggests structural influences on antigen processing.
- Structural features of HIV envelope defined by antibody escape mutant analysis.
- Effect of extended immunosuppressive drug treatment on B cell vs T cell reconstitution in pediatric bone marrow transplant recipients.
- T cell immunotherapeutic populations control viral infections in bone marrow transplant recipients.
- A five-residue HIV envelope helper T cell determinant: does this peptide-MHC interaction leave the binding groove half empty?
- Limited breadth of a T-helper cell response to a human immunodeficiency virus envelope protein.
- Do the immunosuppressive drugs used as treatment for graft-versus-host disease directly inhibit lymphoid tumor cell growth?
- Inhibition of ex vivo-expanded cytotoxic T-lymphocyte function by high-dose cyclosporine.
- Clustering of Th cell epitopes on exposed regions of HIV envelope despite defects in antibody activity.
- Subcutaneous administration of a recombinant vaccinia virus vaccine expressing multiple envelopes of HIV-1.
- Minor components of a multi-envelope HIV vaccine are recognized by type-specific T-helper cells.
- Recombinant Sendai virus expressing the G glycoprotein of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) elicits immune protection against RSV.
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