Dr. Douglas A Drevets MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
711 Stanton L Young Blvd Ppb Suite 430 Oklahoma City OK, 73104About
Dr. Douglas Drevets is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Oklahoma City, OK. Dr. Drevets 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 Ks Sch of Med, Kansas City Ks 1984
University of Pennsylvania, PA 1984
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Dissemination of Listeria monocytogenes by infected phagocytes.
- Leukocyte-facilitated entry of intracellular pathogens into the central nervous system.
- Listeria monocytogenes-infected phagocytes can initiate central nervous system infection in mice.
- Anthrax.
- Plague.
- Subpopulations of mouse blood monocytes differ in maturation stage and inflammatory response.
- The Ly-6Chigh monocyte subpopulation transports Listeria monocytogenes into the brain during systemic infection of mice.
- Invasion of the central nervous system by intracellular bacteria.
- Levels of L-selectin (CD62L) on human leukocytes in disseminated cryptococcosis with and without associated HIV-1 infection.
- Listericidal and nonlistericidal mouse macrophages differ in complement receptor type 3-mediated phagocytosis of L. monocytogenes and in preventing escape of the bacteria into the cytoplasm.
- Measurement of bacterial ingestion and killing by macrophages.
- Adverse outcomes associated with the use of drotrecogin alfa (activated) in patients with severe sepsis and baseline bleeding precautions.
- Roles of complement and complement receptor type 3 in phagocytosis of Listeria monocytogenes by inflammatory mouse peritoneal macrophages.
- Macrophage phagocytosis: use of fluorescence microscopy to distinguish between extracellular and intracellular bacteria.
- Herpes simplex type I (HSV-1) infection of the nervous system: is an immune response a good thing?
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