Dr. Peter Francis Barnes MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
11937 Us Highway 271 Mckinney TX, 75069About
Dr. Peter Barnes is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Mckinney, TX. Dr. Barnes 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 Southern Ca Sch of Med, Los Angeles Ca 1981
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The NKp46 receptor contributes to NK cell lysis of mononuclear phagocytes infected with an intracellular bacterium.
- Reduced expression of nuclear cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate response element-binding proteins and IFN-gamma promoter function in disease due to an intracellular pathogen.
- Transmission dynamics of tuberculosis in Tarrant county, Texas.
- Priming reverse transcription with oligo(dT) does not yield representative samples of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cDNA.
- Multiple Chlamydia pneumoniae antigens prime CD8+ Tc1 responses that inhibit intracellular growth of this vacuolar pathogen.
- Serum cytokine concentrations do not parallel Mycobacterium tuberculosis-induced cytokine production in patients with tuberculosis.
- CD40 ligand trimer enhances the response of CD8+ T cells to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- The CD14 receptor does not mediate entry of Mycobacterium tuberculosis into human mononuclear phagocytes.
- Immunotherapy for tuberculosis: wave of the future or tilting at windmills?
- Spectrum of manifestations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in primates infected with SIV.
- Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis.
- NK cells regulate CD8+ T cell effector function in response to an intracellular pathogen.
- The principal sigma factor sigA mediates enhanced growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vivo.
- Diagnosing latent tuberculosis infection: turning glitter to gold.
- Characterization of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis peptide that is recognized by human CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in the context of multiple HLA alleles.
Dr. Peter Francis Barnes MD's Practice location
University Of Texas Health Science Center At Tyler
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