Dr. Sonia Nagy Chimienti M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
55 Lake Ave N # S7-721 Worcester MA, 01655About
Dr. Sonia Chimienti is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Worcester, MA. Dr. Chimienti 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
University of California 1995
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Spotting the owl: surreptitious cytomegalovirus disease in a renal transplant recipient.
- Top stories of 2008. No good news yet on anti-HIV microbicides.
- Antiretroviral rounds. PEP during early pregnancy?
- Stem-cell transplant and the prospect for an HIV cure. A case report points to gene therapy as a potential avenue for controlling HIV without antiretroviral therapy.
- More progress on preventing HIV infection in infants. Three trials this year pointed to the benefits of extending maternal antiretroviral prophylaxis throughout the breast-feeding period.
- Sexual function in women with HIV.
- Does abacavir use influence HCV treatment response?
- A debate on liver fibrosis progression in HIV/HCV-coinfected patients.
- When to start ART in asymptomatic patients.
- Race and response to HIV treatment.
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