Dr. Karen Elizabeth Mark M.D. MPH
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1500 21st St Sacramento CA, 95811Rating
2/5
About
Dr. Karen Mark is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Seattle, WA. Dr. Mark 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 Francisco, Sch of Med, San Francisco Ca 1998
University of California 1998
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Shape analysis of hippocampal surface structure in patients with unilateral mesial temporal sclerosis.
- Bayesian model selection and minimum description length estimation of auditory-nerve discharge rates.
- A statistical study of cochlear nerve discharge patterns in response to complex speech stimuli.
- Risk factors for infection during a dengue-1 outbreak in Maui, Hawaii, 2001.
- Targeted prenatal herpes simplex virus testing: can we identify women at risk of transmission to the neonate?
- Contraception among HIV concordant and discordant couples in Zambia: a randomized controlled trial.
- Rapidly cleared episodes of herpes simplex virus reactivation in immunocompetent adults.
- Frequent release of low amounts of herpes simplex virus from neurons: results of a mathematical model.
- Rapidly cleared episodes of oral and anogenital herpes simplex virus shedding in HIV-infected adults.
- Regional differences among HIV patients in care: California medical monitoring project sites, 2007-2008.
- Estimated HIV Incidence in California, 2006-2009.
- Occupational HIV Transmission Among Male Adult Film Performers - Multiple States, 2014.
Treatments
- Hives
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