Dr. Gregory P Melcher MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4150 V St Pssb G500 Sacramento CA, 95817About
Dr. Gregory Melcher is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Sacramento, CA. Dr. Melcher 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 Mn Med Sch-Minneapolis, Minneapolis Mn 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Examination of sera from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected individuals for antibodies reactive with peptides corresponding to the principal neutralizing determinant of HIV-1 gp120 and for in vitro neutralizing activity.
- Coccidioides immitis presenting as a mycelial pathogen with empyema and hydropneumothorax.
- Experimental Trichosporon infection in persistently granulocytopenic rabbits: implications for pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of an emerging opportunistic mycosis.
- Fine specificity of the humoral immune response to HIV-1 GP160 in HIV-1 infected individuals from Tanzania.
- Demonstration of a cell wall antigen cross-reacting with cryptococcal polysaccharide in experimental disseminated trichosporonosis.
- Trichosporon beigelii, an emerging pathogen resistant to amphotericin B.
- AIDS in Arkansas. The immunopathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus.
- Role of intestinal myofibroblasts in HIV-associated intestinal collagen deposition and immune reconstitution following combination antiretroviral therapy.
- Demonstration, by immunoelectronmicroscopy, of a cell wall antigen in Trichosporon beigelii that cross-reacts with Cryptococcus neoformans capsular polysaccharide.
- Molecular genotyping of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus via fluorophore-enhanced repetitive-sequence PCR.
- Cerebrospinal fluid neopterin levels in 159 neurologically asymptomatic persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1): relationship to immune status.
- Legionnaires' disease in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients: eight cases and review.
- Infections due to Trichosporon species: new concepts in mycology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment.
- Disseminated hyalohyphomycosis caused by a novel human pathogen, Fusarium
- Nosocomial Legionnaires' disease: aspiration as a primary mode of disease acquisition.
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