Dr. Joyce D Fingeroth M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
55 Lake Ave N Department Of Pediat Worcester MA, 01655About
Dr. Joyce Fingeroth is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Worcester, MA. Dr. Fingeroth 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
New York University School of Medicine 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Detection of Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus DNA sequences in multiple myeloma bone marrow stromal cells.
- Human herpesvirus 8 open reading frame 21 is a thymidine and thymidylate kinase of narrow substrate specificity that efficiently phosphorylates zidovudine but not ganciclovir.
- Characterization of an acyclovir-resistant herpes simplex virus type 2 strain isolated from a premature neonate.
- Herpesvirus infection of the liver.
- The crystal structure of human CD21: Implications for Epstein-Barr virus and C3d binding.
- Characterization of Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus/human herpesvirus-8 infection of human vascular endothelial cells: early events.
- Methylation of the EBV genome and establishment of restricted latency in low-passage EBV-infected 293 epithelial cells.
- EBV attachment stimulates FHOS/FHOD1 redistribution and co-aggregation with CD21: formin interactions with the cytoplasmic domain of human CD21.
- Lymphatic reprogramming of blood vascular endothelium by Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus.
- Functional divergence of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus and related gamma-2 herpesvirus thymidine kinases: novel cytoplasmic phosphoproteins that alter cellular morphology and disrupt adhesion.
- Epstein-Barr virus thymidine kinase is a centrosomal resident precisely localized to the periphery of centrioles.
- Comparative structure and evolution of murine CR2. The homolog of the human C3d/EBV receptor (CD21).
- SIRPα/CD172a and FHOD1 are unique markers of littoral cells, a recently evolved major cell population of red pulp of human spleen.
- Human complement receptor type 1/CD35 is an Epstein-Barr Virus receptor.
- Analysis of host gene expression changes reveals distinct roles for the cytoplasmic domain of the Epstein-Barr virus receptor/CD21 in B-cell maturation, activation, and initiation of virus infection.
Awards
- . 1999 Investigator Award
- 2003 .
- 1977 Alpha Omega Alpha
- 2011 St. Baldrick's Foundation
Professional Memberships
- Member UMass Memorial Medical Group
Fellowships
- Beth Israel/Dana Farber, Fellow:Infectious Diseases 1980
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Fellow 1983
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Infectious Diseases)
- Children's Hospital - Boston, Harvard Medical School (Infectious Diseases)
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