Dr. Richard Ernest Chaisson M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1800 Orleans St Baltimore MD, 21287About
Dr. Richard Chaisson is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Chaisson 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
Univ Of Ma Med Sch- Worcester Ma 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Tuberculosis vaccination versus isoniazid preventive therapy: a decision analysis to determine the preferred strategy of tuberculosis prevention in HIV-infected adults in the developing world.
- Control of tuberculosis during aerosol therapy administration.
- Stavudine in zidovudine (ZDV)-experienced compared with ZDV-naive patients.
- Latent infection of CD4+ T cells provides a mechanism for lifelong persistence of HIV-1, even in patients on effective combination therapy.
- Risk factors for cryptococcal meningitis in HIV-infected patients.
- Costs of HIV medical care in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy.
- Will DOTS do it? A reappraisal of tuberculosis control in countries with high rates of HIV infection.
- Nontuberculous mycobacteria: defining disease in a prospective cohort of South African miners.
- Highly active antiretroviral therapy in a large urban clinic: risk factors for virologic failure and adverse drug reactions.
- Relapse rates after short-course (6-month) treatment of tuberculosis in HIV-infected and uninfected persons.
- Natural history of HIV infection in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy.
- Hepatotoxicity associated with antiretroviral therapy in adults infected with human immunodeficiency virus and the role of hepatitis C or B virus infection.
- Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a cadaver to an embalmer.
- Errors in the treatment of tuberculosis in Baltimore.
- Effect of antiretroviral therapy on the incidence of bacterial pneumonia in patients with advanced HIV infection.
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