Dr. Charles Yen Chiu M.D., PH.D.
Hospitalist
185 Berry St Suite 180a San Francisco CA, 94107About
Dr. Charles Chiu is a hospitalist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Chiu specializes in the comprehensive medical care of hospitalized patients. As a hospitalist, Dr. Chiu manages the clinical problems of hospitalized patients and the acutely ill, while working to improve the performance of the hospital. Dr. Chiu works in collaboration with all of the different doctors that are working with the patient. Hospitalists are involved in the diagnosis, treatment and medical procedures of patients.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- E-Predict: a computational strategy for species identification based on observed DNA microarray hybridization patterns.
- The complete genome of klassevirus - a novel picornavirus in pediatric stool.
- A metagenomic analysis of pandemic influenza A (2009 H1N1) infection in patients from North America.
- Using a pan-viral microarray assay (Virochip) to screen clinical samples for viral pathogens.
- Cross-species transmission of a novel adenovirus associated with a fulminant pneumonia outbreak in a new world monkey colony.
- A novel rhabdovirus associated with acute hemorrhagic fever in central Africa.
- In-depth investigation of archival and prospectively collected samples reveals no evidence for XMRV infection in prostate cancer.
- Discovery of a novel polyomavirus in acute diarrheal samples from children.
- The mitochondrial genome and a 60-kb nuclear DNA segment from Naegleria fowleri, the causative agent of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis.
- A novel adenovirus species associated with an acute respiratory outbreak in a baboon colony and evidence of coincident human infection.
- The genome sequence of Lone Star virus, a highly divergent bunyavirus found in the Amblyomma americanum tick.
- Viral pathogen discovery.
- Characterization of the Bas-Congo virus glycoprotein and its function in pseudotyped viruses.
- Experimental cross-species infection of common marmosets by titi monkey adenovirus.
- Rosavirus: the prototype of a proposed new genus of the Picornaviridae family.
Treatments
- General Care
Fellowships
- UCSF Medical Center 2006
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