Dr. Brian A. Catto MD, MPH
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
811 13TH STREET AUGUSTA GA, 30901About
Dr. Brian Catto is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Augusta, GA. Dr. Catto 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
Univ of Southern Ca Sch of Med, Los Angeles Ca 1973
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- In vitro and in vivo effect of levopraziquantel, dextropraziquantel versus racemic praziquantel on different developmental stages of Schistosoma japonicum.
- Clinical use of praziquantel in China.
- First report of Streptococcus bovis-associated acute cholecystitis in North America.
- Uptake and effect of praziquantel and the major human oxidative metabolite, 4-hydroxypraziquantel, by Schistosoma japonicum.
- Streptococcus mitis. A cause of serious infection in adults.
- In vitro and in vivo studies of the effect of artemether on Schistosoma mansoni.
- Comparative in vitro and in vivo activity of racemic praziquantel and its levorotated isomer on Schistosoma mansoni.
- Schistosoma mansoni: decarboxylation of 5-hydroxytryptophan, L-dopa, and L-histidine in adult and larval schistosomes.
- Tegument changes of Schistosoma japonicum and Schistosoma mansoni in mice treated with artemether.
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