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Dr. Micah Thomas Mcclain MD, PHD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
600 Ivy Meadow Ln 3f Durham NC, 27707About
Dr. Micah Mcclain is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Durham, NC. Dr. Mcclain 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Anti-sm autoantibodies in systemic lupus target highly basic surface structures of complexed spliceosomal autoantigens.
- Modification of lupus-associated 60-kDa Ro protein with the lipid oxidation product 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal increases antigenicity and facilitates epitope spreading.
- H3N2 influenza infection elicits more cross-reactive and less clonally expanded anti-hemagglutinin antibodies than influenza vaccination.
- A host transcriptional signature for presymptomatic detection of infection in humans exposed to influenza H1N1 or H3N2.
- Longitudinal analysis of leukocyte differentials in peripheral blood of patients with acute respiratory viral infections.
- Deep Sequencing of Influenza A Virus from a Human Challenge Study Reveals a
- Host-Based Peripheral Blood Gene Expression Analysis for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases.
- The effective rate of influenza reassortment is limited during human infection.
Fellowships
- Duke University Medical Center, Infectious Diseases, NC, USA 2010
- Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center 2006
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Nearby Providers
- Dr. Rachel A Miller MD40 DUKE MEDICINE CIR DURHAM NC 27710
- Dr. Jay B Varkey M.D.Duke University Medical Ctr Durham NC 27710
- Dr. Jason Stout M.D.2100 Erwin Rd Durham NC 27710
- Dr. Myron S Cohen MD101 Manning Dr Chapel Hill NC 27599
- Dr. Christopher Browning Hurt M.D.101 Manning Drive Chapel Hill NC 27514
- Dr. William C Miller MD101 Manning Dr Chapel Hill NC 27599
Nearest Hospitals
DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALl
PO BOX 3814 DUMC ERWIN RD DURHAM NC 27710UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALl
101 MANNING DRIVE CHAPEL HILL NC 27514