Dr. Christopher F Rowley M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
110 Francis Street-Suite 6b Beth Israel Medical Boston MA, 02215About
Dr. Christopher Rowley is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Rowley 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
Suny-Hlth Sci Ctr At Brooklyn, Coll of Med, Brooklyn Ny 1997
SUNY Downstate Medical Center College Of Medicine 1997
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine 1997
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Impact of hepatitis C virus on immune restoration in HIV-infected patients who start highly active antiretroviral therapy: a meta-analysis.
- Improvement in allele-specific PCR assay with the use of polymorphism-specific primers for the analysis of minor variant drug resistance in HIV-1 subtype C.
- Reduced viral replication capacity of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtype C caused by cytotoxic-T-lymphocyte escape mutations in HLA-B57 epitopes of capsid protein.
- Ultrasensitive detection of minor drug-resistant variants for HIV after nevirapine exposure using allele-specific PCR: clinical significance.
- Minor resistant variants in nevirapine-exposed infants may predict virologic failure on nevirapine-containing ART.
- Estimating the prevalence of transmitted HIV drug resistance using pooled samples.
- Developments in CD4 and viral load monitoring in resource-limited settings.
- Suboptimal Addiction Interventions for Patients Hospitalized with Injection Drug Use-Associated Infective Endocarditis.
- Sharp increase in rates of HIV transmitted drug resistance at antenatal clinics in Botswana demonstrates the need for routine surveillance.
- Reimagining long-term antibiotics in persons who inject drugs: Time to shift the status quo?
- Acute Atraumatic Splenic Hemorrhage: Babesiosis or Acute Infectious Mononucleosis.
- Stretching the Scope - Becoming Frontline Addiction-Medicine Providers.
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