Dr. Jay C Butler MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4055 Tudor Centre Dr Anchorage AK, 99508Rating
4/5
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Dr. Jay Butler is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Anchorage, AK. Dr. Butler 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 Nc At Chapel Hill Sch of Med, Chapel Hill Nc 1985
Physician Assistant Studies, Barry University, FL 1998
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effect of high-dose amoxicillin on the prevalence of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in rural Alaska.
- Botulism among Alaska natives in the Bristol Bay area of southwest Alaska: a survey of knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to fermented foods known to cause botulism.
- Changes in antibiotic-prescribing practices and carriage of penicillin-resistant
- Viral load response to a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, polysaccharide vaccine or placebo among HIV-infected patients.
- Call-tracking data and the public health response to bioterrorism-related anthrax.
- Collaboration between public health and law enforcement: new paradigms and partnerships for bioterrorism planning and response.
- Large summertime influenza A outbreak among tourists in Alaska and the Yukon Territory.
- Impact of palivizumab prophylaxis on respiratory syncytial virus hospitalizations
- An outbreak of community-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin infections in southwestern Alaska.
- Sequelae of severe respiratory syncytial virus infection in infancy and early childhood among Alaska Native children.
- The relationship among previous antimicrobial use, antimicrobial resistance, and treatment outcomes for Helicobacter pylori infections.
- Specificity of the antibody response to the pneumococcal polysaccharide and conjugate vaccines in human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults.
- Community-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus associated with antibiotic use and the cytotoxin Panton-Valentine leukocidin during a furunculosis outbreak in rural Alaska.
- Temporal and geographic stability of the serogroup-specific invasive disease potential of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children.
- Impact of a conjugate vaccine on community-wide carriage of nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae in Alaska.
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