Dr. Mark Edward Polhemus MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Walter Reed Army Medical Ctr 6900 Georgia Ave Washington DC, 20307About
Dr. Mark Polhemus is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Polhemus 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
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University 1995
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Lack of vaccinia viremia after smallpox vaccination.
- Effects of adjuvant radiotherapy for testicular cancer on CD4+ cell count in HIV-positive patients: a case report.
- A US soldier who returned from Iraq with nonhealing sores.
- Persistence of vaccinia at the site of smallpox vaccination.
- Bullous erythema multiforme after treatment with Malarone, a combination antimalarial composed of atovaquone and proguanil hydrochloride.
- Evaluation of recurrent parasitemia after artemether-lumefantrine treatment for uncomplicated malaria in children in western Kenya.
- Outpatient upper respiratory tract viral infections in children with malaria symptoms in Western Kenya.
- Malaria prevalence defined by microscopy, antigen detection, DNA amplification and total nucleic acid amplification in a malaria-endemic region during the peak malaria transmission season.
- Evaluation of immune responses to a Plasmodium vivax CSP-based recombinant protein vaccine candidate in combination with second-generation adjuvants in mice.
- A global map of suitability for coastal Vibrio cholerae under current and future climate conditions.
- Successful malaria elimination in the Ecuador-Peru border region: epidemiology and lessons learned.
- Phase 2a, Open-Label, 4-Escalating-Dose, Randomized Multicenter Study Evaluating the Safety and Activity of Ferroquine (SSR97193) Plus Artesunate, versus Amodiaquine Plus Artesunate, in African Adult Men with Uncomplicated Malaria.
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