Dr. Shevin T Jacob MD, MPH
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
825 Eastlake Ave E Seattle WA, 98109About
Dr. Shevin Jacob is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Seattle, WA. Dr. Jacob 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- Reframing HIV and AIDS.
- Point-of-care lactate testing predicts mortality of severe sepsis in a predominantly HIV type 1-infected patient population in Uganda.
- Adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy in complex emergency settings.
- Treatment of severe sepsis with artemether-lumefantrine is associated with decreased mortality in Ugandan patients without malaria.
- Severe sepsis in two Ugandan hospitals: a prospective observational study of management and outcomes in a predominantly HIV-1 infected population.
- Respiratory failure caused by 2009 novel influenza A/H1N1 in a hematopoietic stem-cell transplant recipient: Detection of extrapulmonary H1N1 RNA and use of intravenous peramivir.
- Hypoglycemia at admission is associated with inhospital mortality in Ugandan patients with severe sepsis.
- Enrichment of HIV-1 subtype AD recombinants in a Ugandan cohort of severely septic patients.
- Doing today's work superbly well--treating Ebola with current tools.
- Raising the standard for clinical care of patients with Ebola virus disease.
- Development of a TaqMan Array Card for Acute-Febrile-Illness Outbreak Investigation and Surveillance of Emerging Pathogens, Including Ebola Virus.
- Design of a multi-arm randomized clinical trial with no control arm.
- Convalescent Plasma for Ebola Virus Disease.
- Corrigendum to "Design of a multi-arm randomized clinical trial with no control arm" [Contemporary Clinical Trials 46 (2016) 12-17].
- Trial of ZMapp for Ebola Virus Infection.
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