Dr. Eric Gerhard Meissner MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
171 ASHLEY AVE CHARLESTON SC, 29425About
Dr. Eric Meissner is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Seattle, WA. Dr. Meissner 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- HIV-1 replication and pathogenesis in the human thymus.
- Characterization of a thymus-tropic HIV-1 isolate from a rapid progressor: role of the envelope.
- Thymic pathogenicity of an HIV-1 envelope is associated with increased CXCR4 binding efficiency and V5-gp41-dependent activity, but not V1/V2-associated CD4 binding efficiency and viral entry.
- Fusion-induced apoptosis contributes to thymocyte depletion by a pathogenic human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope in the human thymus.
- The heptad repeat 2 domain is a major determinant for enhanced human
- Disseminated microsporidiosis in an immunosuppressed patient.
- IFNL4-ΔG genotype is associated with slower viral clearance in hepatitis C, genotype-1 patients treated with sofosbuvir and ribavirin.
- Effect of sofosbuvir and ribavirin treatment on peripheral and hepatic lipid metabolism in chronic hepatitis C virus, genotype 1-infected patients.
- Sustained Virologic Response for Chronic Hepatitis C Infection after 27 Days of Treatment with Sofosbuvir and Ribavirin.
- Continued value in understanding viral kinetic decline during interferon-free therapy for HCV.
- Serum and cellular ribavirin pharmacokinetic and concentration-effect analysis in HCV patients receiving sofosbuvir plus ribavirin.
- Dynamic Changes of Post-Translationally Modified Forms of CXCL10 and Soluble DPP4 in HCV Subjects Receiving Interferon-Free Therapy.
- Interferon-Free Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus in HIV/Hepatitis C Virus-Coinfected Subjects Results in Increased Serum Low-Density Lipoprotein Concentration.
- Key differences in B cell activation patterns and immune correlates among treated HIV-infected patients versus healthy controls following influenza vaccination.
- Achieving sustained virologic response after interferon-free hepatitis C virus treatment correlates with hepatic interferon gene expression changes independent of cirrhosis.
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