Dr. Joel I Ward M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Infectious Diseases
1000 W Carson St # Rb-3 Torrance CA, 90502About
Dr. Joel Ward is a pediatric infectious disease specialist practicing in Torrance, CA. Dr. Ward specializes in recurring or persistent diseases caused by bacteria, parasites or fungus in infants, children and adolescents. Pediatric infectious disease specialists also provide consultation to other health care professionals dealing with complex cases.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Evaluation of Chlamydia pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae as etiologic agents of persistent cough in adolescents and adults.
- Lack of association between rotavirus infection and intussusception: implications for use of attenuated rotavirus vaccines.
- Kinetics of maternal hepatitis a antibody decay in infants: implications for vaccine use.
- Childhood vaccinations and risk of asthma.
- Safety and immunogenicity of a combination diphtheria-tetanus toxoids-acellular pertussis-hepatitis B vaccine administered at two, four and six months of age compared with monovalent hepatitis B vaccine administered at birth, one month and six months
- Polio extraimmunization in children younger than 2 years after changes in immunization recommendations.
- Safety and immunogenicity of a heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in infants.
- Heptavalent pneumococcal vaccine conjugated to outer membrane protein of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup b and nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in infants.
- Antibody-mediated neutralization of pertussis toxin-induced mitogenicity of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
- Evaluation of strategies for use of acellular pertussis vaccine in adolescents
- Immune responses and antibody decay after immunization of adolescents and adults with an acellular pertussis vaccine: the APERT Study.
- Lack of association between hepatitis B birth immunization and neonatal death: a population-based study from the vaccine safety datalink project.
- Importance of new combination vaccines.
- Acellular pertussis vaccines and complement killing of Bordetella pertussis.
- Prevalence of antibody to Bordetella pertussis antigens in serum specimens obtained from 1793 adolescents and adults.
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