Dr. Spotswood L. Spruance MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
50 N Medical Dr Salt Lake City UT, 84132About
Dr. Spotswood Spruance is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Salt Lake City, UT. Dr. Spruance 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
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 1966
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prospects for control of herpes simplex virus disease through immunization.
- Combination treatment with famciclovir and a topical corticosteroid gel versus famciclovir alone for experimental ultraviolet radiation-induced herpes simplex labialis: a pilot study.
- Signal transducers and activators of transcription (Stat) are detectable in mouse trigeminal ganglion neurons.
- Comparison of new topical treatments for herpes labialis: efficacy of penciclovir cream, acyclovir cream, and n-docosanol cream against experimental cutaneous herpes simplex virus type 1 infection.
- Effective treatment of herpes simplex labialis with penciclovir cream: combined results of two trials.
- Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study of topical 5% acyclovir-1%
- Acyclovir cream for treatment of herpes simplex labialis: results of two randomized, double-blind, vehicle-controlled, multicenter clinical trials.
- N-docosanol (Abreva) for herpes labialis: problems and questions.
- Glycoprotein-D-adjuvant vaccine to prevent genital herpes.
- The presence of a dehydroepiandrosterone-specific receptor binding complex in murine T cells.
- The natural history of recurrent oral-facial herpes simplex virus infection.
- STAT1 binds to the herpes simplex virus type 1 latency-associated transcript promoter.
- Clinical significance of antiviral therapy for episodic treatment of herpes labialis: exploratory analyses of the combined data from two valaciclovir trials.
- Ofloxacin versus doxycycline for treatment of cervical infection with Chlamydia trachomatis.
- Multiple sclerosis attacks are associated with picornavirus infections.
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