Dr. Leanne M Fox MD, MPH, DTM&H
Infectious Disease Specialist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Division Of Parasitic Disease, Cdc 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta GA, 30341About
Dr. Leanne Fox is a pediatric infectious disease specialist practicing in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Fox specializes in recurring or persistent diseases caused by bacteria, parasites or fungus in infants, children and adolescents. Pediatric infectious disease specialists also provide consultation to other health care professionals dealing with complex cases.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Clinical correlates of filarial infection in Haitian children: an association with interdigital lesions.
- Visceral larva migrans associated with earthworm ingestion: clinical evolution in an adolescent patient.
- Neonatal babesiosis: case report and review of the literature.
- Resolving design problems in equivalency trials.
- Ivermectin: uses and impact 20 years on.
- Increasing compliance with mass drug administration programs for lymphatic filariasis in India through education and lymphedema management programs.
- Impact of community-based lymphedema management on perceived disability among patients with lymphatic filariasis in Orissa State, India.
- A longitudinal analysis of the effect of mass drug administration on acute inflammatory episodes and disease progression in lymphedema patients in Leogane, Haiti.
- Soil-transmitted helminth infection and nutritional status among urban slum children in Kenya.
- Soil-transmitted helminths in pre-school-aged and school-aged children in an urban slum: a cross-sectional study of prevalence, distribution, and associated exposures.
- Impact of a community-based lymphedema management program on episodes of Adenolymphangitis (ADLA) and lymphedema progression--Odisha State, India.
- Morbidity associated with schistosomiasis before and after treatment in young children in Rusinga Island, western Kenya.
- Unprogrammed deworming in the Kibera slum, Nairobi: implications for control of soil-transmitted helminthiases.
- Changes in Antibody Levels during and following an Episode of Acute Adenolymphangitis (ADL) among Lymphedema Patients in Léogâne, Haiti.
- Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection of Angiostrongylus cantonensis DNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients with Eosinophilic Meningitis.
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