Dr. Heather C Yun M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3551 ROGER BROOKE DR FORT SAM HOUSTON TX, 78234About
Dr. Heather Yun is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Lackland, TX. Dr. Yun 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
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 2001
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Phylogenetic relationships among Acanthamoeba spp. based on PCR-RFLP analyses of mitochondrial small subunit rRNA gene.
- Vertebral anomalies associated with Goldenhar syndrome.
- History of infections associated with combat-related injuries.
- Transmission of adenovirus serotype 14 in the health care setting.
- Pneumonia in military trainees: a comparison study based on adenovirus serotype 14 infection.
- Longitudinal characterization of Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonizing and infecting combat casualties.
- Air Force academic medicine: a climate survey.
- Effect of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors on antimicrobial susceptibilities for gram-negative rods.
- Mosquito Exposure and Chikungunya and Dengue Infection Among Travelers During the Chikungunya Outbreak in the Americas.
- Pulsed-xenon ultraviolet light disinfection in a burn unit: Impact on environmental bioburden, multidrug-resistant organism acquisition and healthcare associated infections.
- A case of Chagas cardiomyopathy following infection in south central Texas.
- Vector-borne diseases of public health importance for personnel on military installations in the United States.
- Challenges with diagnosing and investigating suspected active tuberculosis disease in military trainees.
- [Bacterial endosymbiosis within the cytoplasm of Acanthamoeba lugdunensis isolated from a contact lens storage case].
- Subgenus classification of Acanthamoeba by riboprinting.
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