Dr. Jonathan I Ravdin MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
516 Delaware Street Se Pwb Sixth Floor, Cli Minneapolis MN, 55455About
Dr. Jonathan Ravdin is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Ravdin 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
Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1976
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The cysteine-rich region of the Entamoeba histolytica adherence lectin (170-kilodalton subunit) is sufficient for high-affinity Gal/GalNAc-specific binding in vitro.
- Diagnosis of invasive amebiasis by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay of saliva to detect amebic lectin antigen and anti-lectin immunoglobulin G antibodies.
- Comparison of antigen-capture ELISA to stool-culture methods for the detection of asymptomatic Entamoeba species infection in Kafer Daoud, Egypt.
- Diagnosis of amoebic colitis by antigen capture ELISA in patients presenting with acute diarrhoea in Cairo, Egypt.
- Real-time PCR for detection and differentiation of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar in fecal samples.
- Genotyping of Entamoeba species in South Africa: diversity, stability, and
- Entamoeba histolytica: an update.
- Intestinal antilectin immunoglobulin A antibody response and immunity to Entamoeba dispar infection following cure of amebic liver abscess.
- Use of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to detect anti-adherence protein antibodies in sera of patients with invasive amebiasis in Cairo, Egypt.
- Identification of the Entamoeba histolytica galactose-inhibitable lectin epitopes recognized by human immunoglobulin A antibodies following cure of amebic liver abscess.
- Differentiation of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar infections.
- Human T-lymphocyte proliferation, lymphokine production, and amebicidal activity elicited by the galactose-inhibitable adherence protein of Entamoeba histolytica.
- Characterization of the galactose-specific binding activity of a purified soluble Entamoeba histolytica adherence lectin.
- Estimating the patient care costs of teaching in a teaching hospital.
- Prevalence and incidence of Entamoeba histolytica infection in South Africa and Egypt.
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