Dr. Stephen P Raffanti MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3601 Tvc Nashville TN, 37232About
Dr. Stephen Raffanti is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Nashville, TN. Dr. Raffanti 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 Di Genova- Fac Di Med E Chirurgia- Genova- Italy 1985
University Genoa
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fulminant Kaposi's sarcoma without mucocutaneous disease.
- AIDS: the widening circle.
- Absolute count and percentage of CD4+ lymphocytes are independent predictors of disease progression in HIV-infected persons initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy.
- Pregnancy and HIV disease progression during the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy.
- Misdiagnosis of HIV infection: implications for universal testing.
- Increased detectability of plasma HIV-1 RNA after introduction of a new assay and altered specimen-processing procedures.
- Cross-cohort heterogeneity encountered while validating a model for HIV disease progression among antiretroviral initiators.
- Sociodemographic factors predict early discontinuation of HIV non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors.
- Race and sex differences in antiretroviral therapy use and mortality among HIV-infected persons in care.
- Potentially preventable tuberculosis among HIV-infected persons in the era of highly active antiretroviral treatment.
- Antiretroviral therapy initiation before, during, or after pregnancy in
- Tuberculosis risk before and after highly active antiretroviral therapy initiation: does HAART increase the short-term TB risk in a low incidence TB setting?
- Antiviral activity of coumermycin: identification of resistant and sensitive retrovirus strains.
- In vitro recovery of resistant retrovirus isolates after exposure to phosphonoformate.
- Host range differences among xenotropic type C retroviruses isolated from mouse kidney cell cultures.
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- University of Miami Health System
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