Dr. Kenneth H Mayer M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
164 Summit Ave Fain Bldg. , Suite E Providence RI, 02906About
Dr. Kenneth Mayer is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Providence, RI. Dr. Mayer 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
Northwestern Uniiversity 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The clinical spectrum of HIV infections: implications for public policy.
- Prevalence and cumulative incidence of and risk factors for anemia in a multicenter cohort study of human immunodeficiency virus-infected and -uninfected women.
- Use of highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected women: impact of HIV specialist care.
- Dried blood spots (DBS): a valuable tool for HIV surveillance in developing/tropical countries.
- Human immunodeficiency virus superinfection and recombination: current state of knowledge and potential clinical consequences.
- Nonoccupational HIV post-exposure prophylaxis: guidelines for Rhode Island from the Brown University AIDS Program and the RI Department of Health.
- Monitoring HIV treatment in the developing world.
- Case-crossover study of partner and situational factors for unprotected sex.
- Natural history of human immunodeficiency virus disease in southern India.
- Safety and tolerability of vaginal PRO 2000 gel in sexually active HIV-uninfected and abstinent HIV-infected women.
- Estimating causal treatment effects from longitudinal HIV natural history studies using marginal structural models.
- A pilot study of treatment of bacterial vaginosis with a buffering vaginal
- Spectrum of opportunistic infections in hospitalized HIV-infected patients in
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised guidelines for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) counseling, testing, and referral: targeting HIV specialists.
- Case studies on nonoccupational postexposure HIV prophylaxis.
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