Dr. Peter J Weina M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Walter Reed Army Medical Ctr 6900 Georgia Ave, Nw Washington DC, 20307About
Dr. Peter Weina is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Weina 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
Uniformed Services Univ Of The Hlth Sci- Bethesda Md 1996
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A 33-year-old woman from Nigeria with eosinophilia.
- Further development of the baboon as a model for acute schistosomiasis.
- Mortality in Syrian hamsters infected with Paragonimus kellicotti.
- Toxicokinetics and hydrolysis of artelinate and artesunate in malaria-infected rats.
- Risk assessment and therapeutic indices of artesunate and artelinate in Plasmodium berghei-infected and uninfected rats.
- Epidemiologic investigation of an outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis in a defined geographic focus of transmission.
- Pathogen inactivation of Leishmania donovani infantum in plasma and platelet concentrates using riboflavin and ultraviolet light.
- Leukodepletion filters reduce Leishmania in blood products when used at collection or at the bedside.
- Toxicity evaluation of artesunate and artelinate in Plasmodium berghei-infected and uninfected rats.
- Impact of phlebotomine sand flies on U.S. Military operations at Tallil Air Base, Iraq: 1. background, military situation, and development of a "Leishmaniasis Control Program".
- Liver transplant recipient with concomitant cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis.
- Neurotoxicity and toxicokinetics of artelinic acid following repeated oral administration in rats.
- Applying the STARD (Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy) checklist to the 2007 Transfusion article 'Evaluation of a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of Chagas antibody in US blood donors'.
- Artesunate for malaria.
- Embryotoxicity of artesunate in animal species related to drug tissue distribution and toxicokinetic profiles.
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