Dr. Donald Gray Heppner M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
9441 Brenner Ct Vienna VA, 22180About
Dr. Donald Heppner is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Vienna, VA. Dr. Heppner 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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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Comparison of a rapid field immunochromatographic test to expert microscopy for the detection of Plasmodium falciparum asexual parasitemia in Thailand.
- Malaria vaccines: triumphs or tribulations?
- Plasmodium falciparum antimalarial drug susceptibility on the north-western border of Thailand during five years of extensive use of artesunate-mefloquine.
- Whole blood cultures to assess the immunostimulatory activities of CpG oligodeoxynucleotides.
- Efficacy of recombinant circumsporozoite protein vaccine regimens against experimental Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
- Isolation and characterization of rhesus blood dendritic cells using flow
- Effects of hydroxypyridinone iron chelators in combination with antimalarial drugs on the in vitro growth of Plasmodium falciparum.
- Pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccines to prevent Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
- Opsonization by antigen-specific antibodies as a mechanism of protective immunity induced by Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein-based vaccine.
- Development of RTS,S/AS02: a purified subunit-based malaria vaccine candidate formulated with a novel adjuvant.
- Safety and immunogenicity of single-dose live oral cholera vaccine CVD 103-HgR in 5-9-year-old Indonesian children.
- Protective immunity induced with malaria vaccine, RTS,S, is linked to Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells producing IFN-gamma.
- Safety and immunogenicity of rts,s+trap malaria vaccine, formulated in the as02a adjuvant system, in infant rhesus monkeys.
- Process development and analysis of liver-stage antigen 1, a preerythrocyte-stage protein-based vaccine for Plasmodium falciparum.
- Safety and immunogenicty of RTS,S/AS02A candidate malaria vaccine in Gambian children.
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