Dr. Rima F. Khabbaz M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
342 Ponce De Leon Atlanta GA, 30308Rating
3/5
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Dr. Rima Khabbaz is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Khabbaz 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Emerging viral infections.
- Simian immunodeficiency virus needlestick accident in a laboratory worker.
- SARS surveillance during emergency public health response, United States, March-July 2003.
- Indeterminate HTLV serologic results in U.S. blood donors: are they due to HTLV-I or HTLV-II?
- Sensitive and specific polymerase chain reaction assays for diagnosis of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) and HTLV-II infections in HTLV-I/II-seropositive individuals.
- Seroprevalence of HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 among intravenous drug users and persons in clinics for sexually transmitted diseases.
- Evaluation of a recombinant human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) p21E antibody detection enzyme immunoassay as a supplementary test in HTLV-I/II antibody testing algorithms.
- Synthetic peptide-based immunoassays for distinguishing between human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I and type II infections in seropositive individuals.
- Serologic discrimination of human T cell lymphotropic virus infection by using a synthetic peptide-based enzyme immunoassay.
- Characterization of antibody reactivity to human T-cell lymphotropic virus types I and II using immunoblot and radioimmunoprecipitation assays.
- The risk of development of HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis among persons infected with HTLV-I.
- Seroprevalence and risk factors for HTLV-I/II infection among female prostitutes in the United States.
- Responding to the outbreak of invasive fungal infections: the value of public health to Americans.
- Seroprevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) in Costa Rica.
- Epidemiologic assessment of screening tests for antibody to human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I).
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