Dr. Diane V Havlir MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
995 Potrero Ave Bldg 80 Ward 84 San Francisco CA, 94110About
Dr. Diane Havlir is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Havlir 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
Duke University School of Medicine 1984
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Viral dynamics of acute HIV-1 infection.
- Effect of chemokine receptor gene polymorphisms on the response to potent antiretroviral therapy.
- Structured intermittent treatment for HIV disease: Necessary concession or premature compromise?
- Nontuberculous mycobacteria in the HIV infected patient.
- Responding to organ failure in HIV-infected patients.
- Strategic approaches to antiretroviral treatment.
- Productive infection maintains a dynamic steady state of residual viremia in human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected persons treated with suppressive antiretroviral therapy for five years.
- Complications of HIV disease and antiretroviral therapy. Highlights of the 11th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, February 8-11, 2004, San Francisco, California, USA.
- The case for earlier treatment of HIV infection.
- Rapid increase in tuberculosis incidence soon after infection with HIV--a new twist in the twin epidemics.
- Predictors of residual viremia in HIV-infected patients successfully treated with efavirenz and lamivudine plus either tenofovir or stavudine.
- Complications of HIV disease and antiretroviral therapy.
- Antiretroviral therapy and TB.
- Intensive care of patients with HIV infection.
- Comparison of an interferon-gamma release assay with tuberculin skin testing in HIV-infected individuals.
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