Dr. Lewis Karl Schrager M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
6932 Old Stage Rd Rockville MD, 20852Rating
5/5
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Dr. Lewis Schrager is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Rockville, MD. Dr. Schrager 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
Vanderbilt Univ Sch of Med, Nashville Tn 1981
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1990
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Epidemiologic patterns of upper respiratory illness and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in homosexual men.
- Survival differences in patients with AIDS.
- TB biomarkers, TB correlates and human challenge models: New tools for improving assessment of new TB vaccines.
- Immunopathogenesis of tuberculosis and novel mechanisms of vaccine activity.
- Novel approaches to preclinical research and TB vaccine development.
- Bacterial infections in AIDS patients.
- Predictors for failure of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia prophylaxis. Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study.
- Studies in subjects with long-term nonprogressive human immunodeficiency virus infection.
- Changes in survival after acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS): 1984-1991.
- Cellular and anatomical reservoirs of HIV-1 in patients receiving potent antiretroviral combination therapy.
- Long-term nonprogression in HIV infection: methodological issues and scientific priorities. Report of an international European community-National Institutes of Health Workshop, The Royal Society, London, England, November 27-29, 1995. Scientific Coo
- Effectiveness of potent antiretroviral therapy on time to AIDS and death in men with known HIV infection duration. Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study Investigators.
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