Dr. Ross Douglas Cranston MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3520 5th Ave Suite 201 Pittsburgh PA, 15213Rating
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Dr. Ross Cranston is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Cranston 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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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Incidence and epidemiology of anal cancer in the multicenter AIDS cohort study.
- Anal cancer prevention: how we are failing men who have sex with men.
- Anal cytology screening in HIV-positive men who have sex with men: what's new and what's now?
- Protection of HIV neutralizing aptamers against rectal and vaginal nucleases: implications for RNA-based therapeutics.
- The slippery slope: lubricant use and rectal sexually transmitted infections: a newly identified risk.
- Use of nucleic acid amplification testing for diagnosis of anorectal sexually transmitted infections.
- Acceptability of potential rectal microbicide delivery systems for HIV prevention: a randomized crossover trial.
- A phase 1 randomized, double blind, placebo controlled rectal safety and acceptability study of tenofovir 1% gel (MTN-007).
- Uptake and predictors of anal cancer screening in men who have sex with men.
- Age, comorbidities, and AIDS predict a frailty phenotype in men who have sex with men.
- Young gay men and the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine--much to gain (and lose).
- Factors affecting the prevalence of strongly and weakly carcinogenic and lower-risk human papillomaviruses in anal specimens in a cohort of men who have sex with men (MSM).
- Adherence to rectal gel use among mainly ethnic minority young men who have sex with men during a 3-month placebo gel trial: implications for microbicide research.
- Rectal-specific microbicide applicator: evaluation and comparison with a vaginal applicator used rectally.
- Exploring the feasibility of multi-site flow cytometric processing of gut associated lymphoid tissue with centralized data analysis for multi-site clinical trials.
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