Dr. John Howard Rex MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2617c W Holcombe Blvd # 114 Houston TX, 77025Rating
5/5
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Dr. John Rex is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Houston, TX. Dr. Rex 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
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Treatment of murine fusariosis with SCH 56592.
- Activated lymphocytes reduce adherence of Aspergillus fumigatus.
- Disk diffusion method for determining susceptibilities of Candida spp. to MK-0991.
- The trailing end point phenotype in antifungal susceptibility testing is pH dependent.
- Optimizing voriconazole susceptibility testing of Candida: effects of incubation time, endpoint rule, species of Candida, and level of fluconazole susceptibility.
- Microdilution susceptibility testing of amphotericin B, itraconazole, and voriconazole against clinical isolates of Aspergillus and Fusarium species.
- Estimating the true cost of amphotericin B.
- Quality control limits for broth microdilution susceptibility tests of ten antifungal agents.
- Systematic root cause analysis of adverse drug events in a tertiary referral hospital.
- In vitro susceptibility testing methods for caspofungin against Aspergillus and Fusarium isolates.
- Lipid-based antifungal agents: current status.
- Dendritic cell-mediated stimulation of the in vitro lymphocyte response to
- Glucan synthase inhibitors as antifungal agents.
- Risk factors and predictors of outcome in patients with cancer and breakthrough candidemia.
- Characteristics of human dendritic cells generated in a microgravity analog culture system.
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