Dr. Edgar Turner Overton MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
619 19th St S Birmingham AL, 35249Rating
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Dr. Edgar Overton is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Overton 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- Patterns of primary antiretroviral drug resistance in antiretroviral-naive HIV-1-infected individuals in a midwest university clinic.
- FcRL6, a new ITIM-bearing receptor on cytolytic cells, is broadly expressed by lymphocytes following HIV-1 infection.
- Factors associated with seronegative chronic hepatitis C virus infection in HIV infection.
- Metabolic syndrome in HIV-infected patients from an urban, midwestern US outpatient population.
- Association between hepatitis C virus coinfection and regional adipose tissue volume in HIV-infected men and women.
- An overview of vaccinations in HIV.
- The aging of the HIV epidemic.
- Incidence of sexually transmitted infections among HIV-infected women using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate contraception.
- Effect of postpartum HIV treatment discontinuation on long-term maternal outcome.
- Adverse effects of tenofovir use in HIV-infected pregnant women and their infants.
- Frailty among HIV-infected persons in an urban outpatient care setting.
- A review of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor use to prevent perinatal
- HIV and aging: two converging epidemics.
- Routine screening for depression: identifying a challenge for successful HIV care.
- Alcohol consumption is associated with poor health in HIV clinic patient population: a behavioral surveillance study.
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