Dr. Erik L. Hewlett M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Uva Primary Care Ctr Lee Street, 4th Floo Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Erik Hewlett is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Hewlett 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
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1972
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Epitope mapping of monoclonal antibodies against Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase toxin.
- A commentary on the pathogenesis of pertussis.
- Characterization of binding of adenylate cyclase toxin to target cells by flow cytometry.
- Escherichia coli alpha-hemolysin (HlyA) is heterogeneously acylated in vivo with 14-, 15-, and 17-carbon fatty acids.
- Neutralizing antibodies to adenylate cyclase toxin promote phagocytosis of Bordetella pertussis by human neutrophils.
- Adenylate cyclase toxin from Bordetella pertussis: current concepts and problems in the study of toxin functions.
- Translocation-specific conformation of adenylate cyclase toxin from Bordetella pertussis inhibits toxin-mediated hemolysis.
- Structural consequences of divalent metal binding by the adenylyl cyclase toxin of Bordetella pertussis.
- Mechanism of association of adenylate cyclase toxin with the surface of Bordetella pertussis: a role for toxin-filamentous haemagglutinin interaction.
- Saline lavage: a rapid, effective, and acceptable method for cleansing the gastrointestinal tract.
- Enzymatic activity of adenylate cyclase toxin from Bordetella pertussis is not required for hemolysis.
- Newly secreted adenylate cyclase toxin is responsible for intoxication of target cells by Bordetella pertussis.
- Pertussis in adults: significance for disease transmission and immunisation policy.
- Clinical practice. Pertussis--not just for kids.
- Oligomeric behavior of Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase toxin in solution.
Awards
- 1968 Alpha Omega Alpha, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- 1976 Diplomat, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Excellence in Teaching, 1990 University of Virginia School of Medicine
- 1998 Division B Lecturer, American Society for Microbiology
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