Dr. Richard Byrd Pollard MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4150 V St Pssb G500 Sacramento CA, 95817Rating
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Dr. Richard Pollard is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Sacramento, CA. Dr. Pollard 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effect of didanosine, stavudine, and hydroxyurea therapy on apoptosis in CD45RA+
- Effects of glycyrrhizin, an active component of licorice roots, on Candida albicans infection in thermally injured mice.
- Antiviral effect of gingyo-san, a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, on influenza A2 virus infection in mice.
- Therapeutic protective effects of IL-12 combined with soluble IL-4 receptor against established infections of herpes simplex virus type 1 in thermally injured mice.
- Cadaveric skin allograft-associated cytomegalovirus transmission in a mouse model of thermal injury.
- Virological and immunological responses to once-daily dosing of didanosine in combination with stavudine. AI454-143 Team.
- Cytokine production by rabbit alveolar macrophages: differences between activated and suppressor cell phenotypes.
- Analogy of human immunodeficiency virus to hepatitis C virus: the human immunodeficiency model.
- Glycyrrhizin improves the resistance of MAIDS mice to opportunistic infection of Candida albicans through the modulation of MAIDS-associated type 2 T cell responses.
- Neutralization profiles of sera from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals: relationship to HIV viral load and CD4 cell count.
- Influence of type 2 T cell responses on the severity of encephalitis associated with influenza virus infection.
- Lanoconazole, a new imidazole antimycotic compound, protects MAIDS mice against encephalitis caused by Cryptococcus neoformans.
- A pathogenic role of Th2 responses on the severity of encephalomyelitis induced in mice by herpes simplex virus type 2 infection.
- Didanosine once daily: potential for expanded use.
- [Biological properties of T6S cells, a clone of burn-associated type 2 T cells].
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