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Dr. Paul A Offit M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Infectious Diseases
34th & Civic Center Blvd Children's Hospital Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Paul Offit is a pediatric infectious disease specialist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Offit specializes in recurring or persistent diseases caused by bacteria, parasites or fungus in infants, children and adolescents. Pediatric infectious disease specialists also provide consultation to other health care professionals dealing with complex cases.
Education and Training
Univ of Md Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1977
University of Maryland School of Medicine 1978
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The rotavirus vaccine.
- Migration of antigen-presenting B cells from peripheral to mucosal lymphoid tissues may induce intestinal antigen-specific IgA following parenteral immunization.
- Preventing harm from thimerosal in vaccines.
- Primary murine small intestinal epithelial cells, maintained in long-term culture, are susceptible to rotavirus infection.
- Circulating rotavirus-specific antibody-secreting cells (ASCs) predict the presence of rotavirus-specific ASCs in the human small intestinal lamina propria.
- Hypertrophy, hyperplasia, and infectious virus in gut-associated lymphoid tissue of mice after oral inoculation with simian-human or bovine-human reassortant rotaviruses.
- B2 but not B1 cells can contribute to CD4+ T-cell-mediated clearance of rotavirus in SCID mice.
- Correlates of protection against rotavirus infection and disease.
- How vaccine safety is monitored before and after licensure.
- Distribution of rotavirus-specific memory B cells in gut-associated lymphoid tissue after primary immunization.
- Specific attachment of aqueous-based microcapsules to macrophages, B cells, and dendritic cells in vitro.
- The future of rotavirus vaccines.
- The power of 'box a'.
Treatments
- Fever
- Pneumonia
- Cellulitis
- Urinary Tract Infection (uti)
- Osteomyelitis
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34th & Civic Center Blvd Children's Hospital -Philadelphia, PA 19104Get Direction
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