Dr. Gordon L. Archer M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1250 E MARSHALL ST RICHMOND VA, 23298About
Dr. Gordon Archer is an infectious disease specialist practicing in RICHMOND, VA. Dr. Archer 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 Va Sch of Med, Charlottesville Va 1969
University of Virginia / Main Campus 1969
University of Virginia School of Medicine 1969
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Combinations of vancomycin and beta-lactams are synergistic against staphylococci with reduced susceptibilities to vancomycin.
- Lysostaphin treatment of experimental aortic valve endocarditis caused by a Staphylococcus aureus isolate with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin.
- Phenotypic expression of oxacillin resistance in Staphylococcus epidermidis: roles of mecA transcriptional regulation and resistant-subpopulation selection.
- Effect of type-specific active immunization on the development and progression of experimental Pseudomonas aeruginosa endocarditis.
- Effect of type-specific active immunization on the development and progression of experimental Pseudomonas aeruginosa endocarditis.
- Signaling antibiotic resistance in staphylococci.
- Mechanism and suppression of lysostaphin resistance in oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Transcription of the gene mediating methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus (mecA) is corepressed but not coinduced by cognate mecA and beta-lactamase regulators.
- Conversion of oxacillin-resistant staphylococci from heterotypic to homotypic resistance expression.
- mecA-blaZ corepressors in clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates.
- Quantitation of mecA transcription in oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates.
- Microarray transcription analysis of clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates resistant to vancomycin.
- Hemagglutination and adherence to plastic by Staphylococcus epidermidis.
- Colonization of the female genital tract with Staphylococcus saprophyticus.
- Related clones containing SCCmec type IV predominate among clinically significant Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates.
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