Dr. Fred T Kerns M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3100 Maccorkle Ave Se Suite 604 Charleston WV, 25304About
Dr. Fred Kerns is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Charleston, WV. Dr. Kerns 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
Wv Univ Sch of Med, Morgantown Wv 1977
West Virginia University School of Medicine 1978
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Strongyloides-infected patients at Charleston area medical center, West Virginia, 1997-1998.
- Adenovirus pneumonia with severe sequelae in an immunocompetent adult.
- Study looks at Strongyloides, Giardia cases.
- RNA sulfurtransferase activity in rat liver and chemically induced hepatomas.
- RNA sulfurtransferase activity in rat liver and chemically induced hepatomas.
- Successful ketoconazole treatment of protothecosis with ketoconazole-associated hepatotoxicity.
- Herpes esophagitis in immunocompetent adults: report of two cases and review of the literature.
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