Dr. James E Ballou MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Jackson River Internist 1 Arh Lane, Ste 300 Low Moor VA, 24457About
Dr. James Ballou is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Low Moor, VA. Dr. Ballou 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- 1986
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease- 1992
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The long-term effects of intratracheally instilled 253EsCl3 in rats.
- On the metabolic equivalence of deuterium and tritium in animal experimentation.
- Studies of metabolic turnover with tritium as a tracer. III. Comparative studies with tritium and deuterium.
- Studies of metabolic turnover with tritium as a tracer. IV. Metabolically inert lipide and protein fractions from the rat.
- Further studies on the gastrointestinal absorption of plutonium.
- Studies of metabolic turnover with tritium as a tracer. V. The predominantly non-dynamic state of body constituents in the rat.
- Metabolism of radio-ruthenium in the rat; consideration of permissible exposure limits.
- Effects of age and mode of ingestion on absorption of plutonium.
- Metabolism of cesium-137 in the rat comparison of acute and chronic administration experiments.
- Metabolism of zinc-65 in the rat. Consideration of permissible exposure limits.
- Removal of deposited plutonium by triethylenetetramine hexaacetic acid.
- Studies with neptunium in the rat.
- The combined toxic effects of plutonium plus x-ray in rats.
- Preliminary evaluation of several chelating agents for plutonium removal.
- DISTRIBUTION AND RETENTION OF PLUTONIUM-239 AND NEPTUNIUM-237 IN THE RAT ADRENAL.
Fellowships
- Infectious Disease, Eastern VA Graduate School of Medicine Dept of IM, Norfolk, VA USA 1988
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