Dr. Roy T Steigbigel M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
205 N Belle Mead Rd East Setauket NY, 11733Rating
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Dr. Roy Steigbigel is an infectious disease specialist practicing in East Setauket, NY. Dr. Steigbigel 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 Rochester Sch of Med & Dentistry, Rochester Ny 1966
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry 1966
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Insulin-like growth factor system in patients with HIV infection: effect of exogenous growth hormone administration.
- Complement, serum bactericidal activity, and disseminated gram-negative infection.
- Complement, serum bactericidal activity, and disseminated gram-negative infection.
- Association of severe insulin resistance with both loss of limb fat and elevated serum tumor necrosis factor receptor levels in HIV lipodystrophy.
- Predictors of HIV-specific lymphocyte proliferative immune responses induced by therapeutic vaccination.
- Images in clinical medicine. Nodular Clostridium difficile colitis.
- Pilot study comparing the salivary cationic protein concentrations in healthy adults and AIDS patients: correlation with antifungal activity.
- Determination of salivary anticandidal activities in healthy adults and patients with AIDS: a pilot study.
- Antiretroviral activity, pharmacokinetics, and tolerability of MK-0518, a novel inhibitor of HIV-1 integrase, dosed as monotherapy for 10 days in treatment-naive HIV-1-infected individuals.
- Combined tipranavir and enfuvirtide use associated with higher plasma tipranavir concentrations but not with increased hepatotoxicity: sub-analysis from RESIST.
- Treatment of HIV infection with raltegravir.
- Factors determining pulmonary deposition of aerosolized pentamidine in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
- Targeting pandemic influenza: a primer on influenza antivirals and drug resistance.
- Renal hematuria associated with adenovirus 7a infection.
- Renal hematuria associated with adenovirus 7a infection.
Fellowships
- Stanford University School of Medicine,Stanford, Ca, United States
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