Dr. Alisa Patricia Alker MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
101 Manning Dr Chapel Hill NC, 27514About
Dr. Alisa Alker is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Alker 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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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Rapid real-time PCR genotyping of mutations associated with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum.
- Real-time PCR methods for monitoring antimalarial drug resistance.
- Mutations associated with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and chlorproguanil resistance in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Blantyre, Malawi.
- Rare Congolese Plasmodium falciparum DHFR alleles.
- Amodiaquine and combination chemotherapy for malaria.
- Maternal-fetal microtransfusions and HIV-1 mother-to-child transmission in Malawi.
- Longitudinal study of aspergillosis in sea fan corals.
- Estimating true antimalarial efficacy by heteroduplex tracking assay in patients with complex Plasmodium falciparum infections.
- A randomized controlled pilot trial of azithromycin or artesunate added to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine as treatment for malaria in pregnant women.
- dhfr and dhps genotype and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine treatment failure in children with falciparum malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Pfmdr1 copy number and arteminisin derivatives combination therapy failure in falciparum malaria in Cambodia.
- Socio-demographic characteristics associated with HIV and syphilis seroreactivity among pregnant women in Blantyre, Malawi, 2000-2004.
- Delayed Plasmodium falciparum clearance following artesunate-mefloquine combination therapy in Thailand, 1997-2007.
- Perspective on emergence and re-emergence of amantadine resistant influenza A viruses in domestic animals in China.
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