Dr. Charles F Longer M.D
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
979 E 3rd St Suite 1001 Chattanooga TN, 37403Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Charles Longer is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Chattanooga, TN. Dr. Longer 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
Uniformed Services Univ Of The Hlth Sci- Bethesda Md 1981
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine 1981
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The socioeconomic impact of hepatitis E in Nepal.
- Antiserum generated by DNA vaccine binds to hepatitis E virus (HEV) as determined by PCR and immune electron microscopy (IEM): application for HEV detection by affinity-capture RT-PCR.
- Short report: phylogenetically distinct hepatitis E viruses in Pakistan.
- Malaria in Mogadishu, Somalia.
- Malaria among United States troops in Somalia.
- Short report: polymerase chain reaction detection of hepatitis E virus in north African fecal samples.
- Rates of hepatitis E virus infection and disease among adolescents and adults in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- Characterization of hepatitis E virus (HEV) from Algeria and Chad by partial
- Experimental African HEV infection in cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis).
- Hepatitis E virus: complete genome sequence and phylogenetic analysis of a Nepali isolate.
- Phylogenetic analysis of hepatitis E virus isolates from Egypt.
Treatments
- Cellulitis
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