Dr. George F. Brooks M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
185 Berry St San Francisco CA, 94107About
Dr. George Brooks is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Brooks 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- Infectious Disease
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Studies on the relationships between serum bactericidal activity and uncomplicated genital infections due to Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
- Studies on the relationships between serum bactericidal activity and uncomplicated genital infections due to Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
- Parameters of normal polymorphonuclear cell function in patients with repeated gonococcal infections.
- Chromosome 6: linkage of the eighth component of complement (C8) to the histocompatibility region (HLA).
- Characterization of antimicrobial resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes isolates from the San Francisco Bay area of northern California.
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae coordinately uses Pili and Opa to activate HEC-1-B cell microvilli, which causes engulfment of the gonococci.
- Infections or neoplasm as causes of prolonged fever in cancer patients.
- Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteremia associated with C6, C7, or C8 deficiency.
- Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteremia associated with C6, C7, or C8 deficiency.
- Neonatal and childhood gonococcal infections.
- Antibodies against IgA1 protease are stimulated both by clinical disease and asymptomatic carriage of serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis.
- Evaluation of the autoSCAN-W/A rapid system for identification and susceptibility testing of gram-negative fermentative bacilli.
- DNA amplification and reverse dot blot hybridization for detection and identification of mycobacteria to the species level in the clinical laboratory.
- Scanning electron microscopy of piliated Neisseria gonorrhoeae processed with hexamethyldisilazane.
- Evaluation of a new-generation line-probe assay that detects 5' untranslated and core regions to genotype and subtype hepatitis C virus.
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