Dr. Daniel F Hoft MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3660 Vista Saint Louis MO, 63110About
Dr. Daniel Hoft is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Hoft 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 Mo, Columbia Sch of Med, Columbia Mo 1985
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Persistence and boosting of bacille Calmette-Guérin-induced delayed-type hypersensitivity.
- In vitro measurement of protective mycobacterial immunity: antigen-specific expansion of T cells capable of inhibiting intracellular growth of bacille Calmette-Guérin.
- Canarypox vaccines induce antigen-specific human gammadelta T cells capable of interferon-gamma production.
- Cruzipain induces both mucosal and systemic protection against Trypanosoma cruzi in mice.
- Induction of B- and T-cell responses to cruzipain in the murine model of Trypanosoma cruzi infection.
- Type 1 immunity provides optimal protection against both mucosal and systemic Trypanosoma cruzi challenges.
- Lipoarabinomannan-reactive human secretory immunoglobulin A responses induced by mucosal bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination.
- Differential effects of control and antigen-specific T cells on intracellular mycobacterial growth.
- Differential interleukin-8 and nitric oxide production in epithelial cells induced by mucosally invasive and noninvasive Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes.
- Type 1 immunity provides both optimal mucosal and systemic protection against a mucosally invasive, intracellular pathogen.
- CD8+-T-cell-dependent control of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in a highly susceptible mouse strain after immunization with recombinant proteins based on amastigote surface protein 2.
- Flow-cytometric detection of vaccinia-induced memory effector CD4(+), CD8(+), and gamma delta TCR(+) T cells capable of antigen-specific expansion and effector functions.
- Enhancement of innate and cell-mediated immunity by antimycobacterial antibodies.
- Anatomical route of invasion and protective mucosal immunity in Trypanosoma cruzi conjunctival infection.
- Hepatitis C virus inhibits cell surface expression of HLA-DR, prevents dendritic cell maturation, and induces interleukin-10 production.
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