Dr. Ronald Glenn Washburn M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1501 Kings Hwy Department Of Medici Shreveport LA, 71103About
Dr. Ronald Washburn is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Shreveport, LA. Dr. Washburn 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 1981
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A randomized and blinded multicenter trial of high-dose fluconazole plus placebo versus fluconazole plus amphotericin B as therapy for candidemia and its consequences in nonneutropenic subjects.
- Mechanisms of host defence against fungal infection.
- Binding of complement to trypomastigotes of a Brazil strain of Trypanosoma cruzi: evidence for heterogeneity within the strain.
- Differences in Cryptococcus neoformans capsular polysaccharide structure influence assembly of alternative complement pathway C3 convertase on fungal surfaces.
- Invasive Aspergillus infections complicating coronary artery bypass grafting.
- Flucytosine interference in creatinine assay.
- Reversal of adrenal glucocorticoid dysfunction in a patient with disseminated histoplasmosis.
- C1q enhances the phagocytosis of Cryptococcus neoformans blastospores by human monocytes.
- An enzymatic method for 5-fluorocytosine.
- Rapid enzymatic method for measurement of serum flucytosine levels.
- Inhibition of complement by culture supernatants of Aspergillus fumigatus.
- Paracoccidioidomycosis case report: cure with amphotericin B and triple sulfa.
- Anticryptococcal activity of NK cell-enriched peripheral blood lymphocytes from human immunodeficiency virus-infected subjects: responses to interleukin-2, interferon-gamma, and interleukin-12.
- Intravascular catheter exchange and duration of candidemia. NIAID Mycoses Study Group and the Candidemia Study Group.
- Binding and germination of Aspergillus fumigatus conidia on cultured A549 pneumocytes.
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