Dr. John W Gnann MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. John Gnann is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Gnann 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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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Therapeutic approaches to the management of herpes zoster.
- Herpes zoster: focus on treatment in older adults.
- Human herpesvirus 8 and Kaposi's sarcoma in persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
- Phase specific analysis of herpes zoster associated pain data: a new statistical approach.
- Viral encephalitis: familiar infections and emerging pathogens.
- Hepatitis, syphilis, and HIV sentinel surveillance in Mongolia 1999-2000.
- Varicella-zoster virus: atypical presentations and unusual complications.
- A prospective study of genital herpes simplex virus type 2 infection in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-seropositive women: correlations with CD4 cell count and plasma HIV-1 RNA level.
- Acyclovir: a decade later.
- A randomized, open-label study to evaluate the safety and pharmacokinetics of human hepatitis C immune globulin (Civacir) in liver transplant recipients.
- The incidence and severity of herpes simplex encephalitis in Sweden, 1990-2001.
- Vaccination to prevent herpes zoster in older adults.
- The epidemiological, clinical, and pathological rationale for the herpes zoster vaccine.
- Famciclovir treatment options for patients with frequent outbreaks of recurrent genital herpes: the RELIEF trial.
- Herpes zoster in the age of focused immunosuppressive therapy.
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