Dr. Peter Einar Pertel MD, MPH
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
157 Clark Rd Brookline MA, 02445About
Dr. Peter Pertel is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Brookline, MA. Dr. Pertel 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
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine 1987
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Human herpesvirus 8 glycoprotein B (gB), gH, and gL can mediate cell fusion.
- Linezolid treatment for osteomyelitis due to vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium.
- Risk factors for a poor outcome after therapy for acute pyelonephritis.
- Comparison of a 3-day with a 1-day regimen of an extended-release formulation of ciprofloxacin as antimicrobial prophylaxis for patients undergoing transrectal needle biopsy of the prostate.
- Effects of prior effective therapy on the efficacy of daptomycin and ceftriaxone for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia.
- Pharmacokinetics and safety of multiple doses of daptomycin 6 mg/kg in noninfected adults undergoing hemodialysis or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
- Modified entry and syncytium formation by herpes simplex virus type 1 mutants selected for resistance to heparin inhibition.
- Partial resistance to gD-mediated interference conferred by mutations affecting herpes simplex virus type 1 gC and gK.
- Human herpesvirus-8 glycoprotein B interacts with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) glycoprotein 110 but fails to complement the infectivity of EBV mutants.
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