Dr. Laurence U Buxbaum M.D., PH.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3900 Woodland Ave Res 151 (a505) Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Laurence Buxbaum is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Chester, PA. Dr. Buxbaum 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
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1995
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1995
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Glycosyl phosphatidylinositol myristoylation in African trypanosomes. New intermediates in the pathway for fatty acid remodeling.
- IL-4-independent inhibition of IL-12 responsiveness during Leishmania amazonensis infection.
- Control of New World cutaneous leishmaniasis is IL-12 independent but STAT4 dependent.
- Cysteine protease B of Leishmania mexicana inhibits host Th1 responses and protective immunity.
- Interleukin 10- and Fcgamma receptor-deficient mice resolve Leishmania mexicana lesions.
- FcgammaRIII mediates immunoglobulin G-induced interleukin-10 and is required for chronic Leishmania mexicana lesions.
- A detrimental role for IgG and FcgammaR in Leishmania mexicana infection.
- Type I IFNs promote the early IFN-gamma response and the IL-10 response in Leishmania mexicana infection.
- Rapid oral fluid testing for HIV in veterans with mental health diagnoses and residing in community-assisted living facilities.
- IgG1 is pathogenic in Leishmania mexicana infection.
- Eliminating murine norovirus by cross-fostering.
- Leishmania mexicana infection induces IgG to parasite surface glycoinositol phospholipids that can induce IL-10 in mice and humans.
- Interleukin-10 from T cells, but not macrophages and granulocytes, is required for chronic disease in Leishmania mexicana infection.
- Myristate exchange. A second glycosyl phosphatidylinositol myristoylation reaction in African trypanosomes.
- Myristate exchange in glycolipid A and VSG of African trypanosomes.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
Dr. Laurence U Buxbaum M.D., PH.D.'s Practice location
Practice At 1 Medical Center Blvd Acp-331
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