Dean H. Kedes
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Lee St Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Dean Kedes is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Kedes 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
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1988
Yale School of Medicine 1988
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Use of epidemiologically well-defined subjects and existing immunofluorescence assays to calibrate a new enzyme immunoassay for human herpesvirus 8 antibodies.
- Lytic replication of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus results in the formation of multiple capsid species: isolation and molecular characterization of A, B, and C capsids from a gammaherpesvirus.
- Capsid structure of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, a gammaherpesvirus, compared to those of an alphaherpesvirus, herpes simplex virus type 1, and a betaherpesvirus, cytomegalovirus.
- Novel Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus homolog in baboons.
- Surface downregulation of major histocompatibility complex class I, PE-CAM, and ICAM-1 following de novo infection of endothelial cells with Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus.
- Three-dimensional structures of the A, B, and C capsids of rhesus monkey rhadinovirus: insights into gammaherpesvirus capsid assembly, maturation, and DNA packaging.
- De novo infection with rhesus monkey rhadinovirus leads to the accumulation of multiple intranuclear capsid species during lytic replication but favors the release of genome-containing virions.
- Susceptibility of human fetal mesenchymal stem cells to Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus.
- Mass spectrometric analyses of purified rhesus monkey rhadinovirus reveal 33 virion-associated proteins.
- KSHV targets multiple leukocyte lineages during long-term productive infection in NOD/SCID mice.
- Asynchronous progression through the lytic cascade and variations in intracellular viral loads revealed by high-throughput single-cell analysis of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection.
- Rhesus monkey rhadinovirus: a model for the study of KSHV.
- Direct visualization of the putative portal in the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus capsid by cryoelectron tomography.
- Intracellular Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus load determines early loss of immune synapse components.
- Cryo-electron tomography of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus capsids reveals dynamic scaffolding structures essential to capsid assembly and maturation.
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