Dr. Donald Roland Skillman M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
503 Robert Grant Ave Walter Reed Army Ins Silver Spring MD, 20910About
Dr. Donald Skillman is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Silver Spring, MD. Dr. Skillman 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
Uniformed Services Univ Of The Hlth Sci- Bethesda Md 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Norwalk-like viral gastroenteritis outbreak in U.S. Army trainees.
- Structure identification and prophylactic antimalarial efficacy of 2-guanidinoimidazolidinedione derivatives.
- The medicinal chemistry of botulinum, ricin and anthrax toxins.
- In vitro metabolism of phenoxypropoxybiguanide analogues in human liver microsomes to potent antimalarial dihydrotriazines.
- Role of US military research programs in the development of US Food and Drug Administration--approved antimalarial drugs.
- Pharmacokinetics, safety, and hydrolysis of oral pyrroloquinazolinediamines administered in single and multiple doses in rats.
- Role of specific cytochrome P450 isoforms in the conversion of phenoxypropoxybiguanide analogs in human liver microsomes to potent antimalarial dihydrotriazines.
- HIV infection and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: a strategy for public education.
- Phase 2 efficacy trial of an oral 8-aminoquinoline (WR6026) for treatment of visceral leishmaniasis.
- Sialylation lessens the infectivity of Neisseria gonorrhoeae MS11mkC.
- Neuropsychological effects of Interferon Alfa-n3 treatment in asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus-1-infected individuals.
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