Dr. Lucas Scott Blanton MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
445 Lenox Road 8th Floor Brooklyn NY, 11203About
Dr. Lucas Blanton is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Galveston, TX. Dr. Blanton 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
Texas A&M University, TX 2005
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Symptomatic hyperbilirubinemia secondary to dapsone-induced hemolysis and atazanavir therapy.
- Murine typhus: an important consideration for the nonspecific febrile illness.
- Rickettsial infections in the tropics and in the traveler.
- Rickettsiae and ehrlichiae within a city park: is the urban dweller at risk?
- Intravascular persistence of Anaplasma platys, Ehrlichia chaffeensis, and Ehrlichia ewingii DNA in the blood of a dog and two family members.
- "Rickettsia amblyommii" induces cross protection against lethal Rocky Mountain spotted fever in a guinea pig model.
- Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis by Fonsecaea monophora: Report in a patient with AIDS and a ring enhancing lesion.
- Flea-Borne Rickettsioses and Rickettsiae.
- Genotypic characterization of Orientia tsutsugamushi from patients in two geographical locations in Sri Lanka.
- Rickettsiae as Emerging Infectious Agents.
Awards
- Texas Rising Stars 2012
Fellowships
- Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Grad 2010
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