Dr. Amy D Klion MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
9000 Rockville Pike Nih Bethesda MD, 20892About
Dr. Amy Klion is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Klion 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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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Onchocerciasis in a nonendemic population: clinical and immunologic assessment before treatment and at the time of presumed cure.
- "Pseudo-conduction block" in a patient with vasculitic neuropathy.
- A high malaria reinfection rate in children and young adults living under a low entomological inoculation rate in a periurban area of Bamako, Mali.
- The etiology of severe anemia in a village and a periurban area in Mali.
- Platelet-derived growth factor receptor inhibition to treat idiopathic
- Genetic heterogeneity in Loa loa parasites from southern Cameroon: A preliminary study.
- Anti-interleukin-5 therapy for asthma and hypereosinophilic syndrome.
- Rebound eosinophilia after treatment of hypereosinophilic syndrome and eosinophilic gastroenteritis with monoclonal anti-IL-5 antibody SCH55700.
- Recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of hypereosinophilic syndromes.
- Multilineage involvement of the fusion gene in patients with FIP1L1/PDGFRA-positive hypereosinophilic syndrome.
- Platelet-derived growth factor receptor-alpha-associated hypereosinophilic syndrome and lymphomatoid papulosis.
- Eosinophilia is associated with a higher mortality rate among patients with autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome.
- KIT D816V-associated systemic mastocytosis with eosinophilia and FIP1L1/PDGFRA-associated chronic eosinophilic leukemia are distinct entities.
- Approach to the therapy of hypereosinophilic syndromes.
- Year-to-year variation in the age-specific incidence of clinical malaria in two potential vaccine testing sites in Mali with different levels of malaria transmission intensity.
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