Dr. Richard D. Pearson M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Uva Primary Care Ctr Lee Street Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Richard Pearson is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Pearson 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
Univ of Mi Med Sch, Ann Arbor Mi 1973
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Clinical Trials Report.
- Clinical Trials Report.
- An Update on the Geohelminths: Ascaris lumbricoides, Hookworms, Trichuris trichiura, and Strongyloides stercoralis.
- The sensitivity and specificity of Leishmania chagasi recombinant K39 antigen in the diagnosis of American visceral leishmaniasis and in differentiating active from subclinical infection.
- Development status of miltefosine as first oral drug in visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis.
- Nitazoxanide As Treatment of Intestinal Parasites in Children.
- Immunopathogenesis of infection with the visceralizing Leishmania species.
- Infected health care workers and patient safety: a double standard.
- The emergence of chagas disease in the United States and Canada.
- Genetic predisposition to self-curing infection with the protozoan Leishmania chagasi: a genomewide scan.
- A comprehensive re-analysis of the Golden Spike data: towards a benchmark for differential expression methods.
- Upstream sequence elements direct post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression under stress conditions in yeast.
- Genetic admixture in Brazilians exposed to infection with Leishmania chagasi.
- puma: a Bioconductor package for propagating uncertainty in microarray analysis.
- Bias due to selection of rare variants using frequency in controls.
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