Dr. Richard L. Guerrant M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Lee Street Uva Primary Care Cen Charlottesville VA, 22903About
Dr. Richard Guerrant is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Guerrant 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 Va Sch of Med, Charlottesville Va 1968
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Threats to global health and survival: the growing crises of tropical infectious diseases--our "unfinished agenda".
- Association of early childhood diarrhea and cryptosporidiosis with impaired physical fitness and cognitive function four-seven years later in a poor urban community in northeast Brazil.
- Seroprevalence and seroincidence of Norwalk-like virus infection among Brazilian infants and children.
- Persistent diarrhea signals a critical period of increased diarrhea burdens and nutritional shortfalls: a prospective cohort study among children in northeastern Brazil.
- Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli expresses a novel flagellin that causes IL-8 release from intestinal epithelial cells.
- Lactoferrin and eosinophilic cationic protein in nasal secretions of patients with experimental rhinovirus colds, natural colds, and presumed acute community-acquired bacterial sinusitis.
- Retinol and retinol-binding protein: gut integrity and circulating immunoglobulins.
- Update on Clostridium difficile infection.
- Transforming growth factor beta1 ameliorates intestinal epithelial barrier disruption by Cryptosporidium parvum in vitro in the absence of mucosal T lymphocytes.
- The Unacceptable Costs of the Diseases of Poverty.
- Changes over time in the epidemiology of diarrhea and malnutrition among children in an urban Brazilian shantytown, 1989 to 1996.
- Diarrheagenic effect of volume expansion: intestinal fluid secretion without mucosal adenyl cyclase stimulation.
- Polysaccharide conjugate typhoid vaccine.
- Role of inducible cyclooxygenase and prostaglandins in Clostridium difficile toxin A-induced secretion and inflammation in an animal model.
- A longitudinal study of Giardia lamblia infection in north-east Brazilian children.
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