Dr. William A. Petri M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Lee Street, 4th Floor Uva Primary Care Cen Charlottesville VA, 22903About
Dr. William Petri is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Petri 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.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prevalence and immune response to Entamoeba histolytica infection in preschool children in Bangladesh.
- Virulence factors of Entamoeba histolytica.
- Diagnosis and management of amebiasis.
- Applying antisense technology to the study of Entamoeba histolytica pathogenesis.
- Diagnosis of amebic liver abscess and intestinal infection with the TechLab Entamoeba histolytica II antigen detection and antibody tests.
- Amebic liver abscess.
- Entamoeba histolytica: deletion of the GPI anchor signal sequence on the Gal/GalNAc lectin light subunit prevents its assembly into the lectin heterodimer.
- Identification of two Entamoeba histolytica sequence-specific URE4 enhancer-binding proteins with homology to the RNA-binding motif RRM.
- Salivary antilectin IgA antibodies in a cohort of children residing in an endemic area of Bangladesh.
- Role of host caspases in cell killing by Entamoeba histolytica.
- Binding of the galactose-specific lectin of Entamoeba histolytica to hamster hepatocyte primary cultures.
- Entamoeba histolytica: localization Of the Gal/GalNAc adherence lectin in experimental amebic liver abscess.
- Socioeconomic status, clinical features, laboratory and parasitological findings of hepatic amebiasis patients--a hospital based prospective study in Bangladesh.
- Caspase 3-dependent killing of host cells by the parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
- New tools for genetic analysis of Entamoeba histolytica: blasticidin S deaminase and green fluorescence protein.
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