Dr. William C Summers MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
5210 Poplar Ave Suite 200 Memphis TN, 38119About
Dr. William Summers is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Memphis, TN. Dr. Summers 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- A restriction fragment analysis of the T7 left-early region.
- Microbe Hunters revisited.
- Hans Zinsser: a tale of two cultures.
- The Chinese Nail Murders: forensic medicine in Imperial China.
- Bacteriophage therapy.
- From culture as organism to organism as cell: historical origins of bacterial genetics.
- How bacteriophage came to be used by the Phage Group.
- Head and neck cooling by air, water, or air plus water in hyperthermia.
- From enzyme adaptation to gene regulation.
- Identification of the 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate-responsive enhancer of the MS gene of the Epstein-Barr virus.
- X-IRRADIATION OF THE TUMOR BED. I. A STUDY OF THE INDIRECT ACTIONS OF RADIATION ON TRANSPLANTABLE TUMORS.
- IN VITRO CONVERSION OF NEUTRAL GIBBERELIN-LIKE SUBSTANCES FROM POTATO TUBERS.
- Phage offer a real alternative.
- Structure and function of herpesvirus genomes. I. comparison of five HSV-1 and two HSV-2 strains by cleavage their DNA with eco R I restriction endonuclease.
- Structure and function of herpesvirus genomes. I. comparison of five HSV-1 and two HSV-2 strains by cleavage their DNA with eco R I restriction endonuclease.
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