Dr. Stephen I Pelton MD
Infectious Disease Specialist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Dowling 3 South One Boston Medical Center Place Child Health Foundat Boston MA, 02118About
Dr. Stephen Pelton is a pediatric infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Pelton specializes in recurring or persistent diseases caused by bacteria, parasites or fungus in infants, children and adolescents. Pediatric infectious disease specialists also provide consultation to other health care professionals dealing with complex cases.
Education and Training
University At Buffalo SUNY School Of Med and Biomedical Sciences Buffalo Ny 1972
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Infectious Diseases
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Abnormal body-fat distribution in HIV-1-infected children on antiretrovirals.
- A one year experience: T cell responses and viral replication in children with advanced human immunodeficiency virus type 1 disease treated with combination therapy including ritonavir.
- Efficacy of linezolid in experimental otitis media.
- HLA-B57-restricted cytotoxic T-lymphocyte activity in a single infected subject toward two optimal epitopes, one of which is entirely contained within the other.
- Differential narrow focusing of immunodominant human immunodeficiency virus gag-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses in infected African and caucasoid adults and children.
- Risk factors for invasive pneumococcal disease in children: a population-based case-control study in North America.
- Variability of outer membrane protein P1 and its evaluation as a vaccine candidate against experimental otitis media due to nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae: an unambiguous, multifaceted approach.
- Acute otitis media in the era of effective pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: will new pathogens emerge?
- Radiographic resolution of lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis (LIP) in children with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV): not a sign of clinical deterioration.
- Xanthomas and hyperlipidemia in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected child
- Experimental acute otitis media due to nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae: comparison of high and low azithromycin doses with placebo.
- Acute otitis media in an era of increasing antimicrobial resistance and universal administration of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
- Host-derived sialic acid is incorporated into Haemophilus influenzae lipopolysaccharide and is a major virulence factor in experimental otitis media.
- New concepts in otitis media: results of investigations of the Greater Boston Otitis Media Study Group.
- Antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine era: predictors of carriage in a multicommunity sample.
Awards
- Alpha Omega Alpha
- Boston Top Docs - Pediatric Infectious Diseases 2012
Fellowships
- Pediatric Infectious Disease, Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Center, Boston MA 1975
- Harvard Medical School, Fellow 1974
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Practice At Dowling 3 South One Boston Medical Center Place Child Health Foundat
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