Dr. George Winston Christopher MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2200 Bergquist Dr Suite 1, 759 Mdos/Mm Lackland TX, 78236About
Dr. George Christopher is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Lackland, TX. Dr. Christopher 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 Virginia / Main Campus 1978
University of Virginia School of Medicine 1978
Board Certification
Emergency MedicineAmerican Board of Emergency MedicineABEM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Chikungunya in a North American traveler.
- Aeromedical evacuation of biological warfare casualties: a treatise on infectious diseases on aircraft.
- Challenges, progress, and opportunities: proceedings of the filovirus medical countermeasures workshop.
- Evaluation of Signature Erosion in Ebola Virus Due to Genomic Drift and Its
- Persistent Ebola Virus in the Eye.
- Escherichia coli bacteremia, meningitis, and hemochromatosis.
- Successful oral acyclovir desensitization.
- Evaluation of pertussis in U.S. Marine Corps trainees.
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