Dr. Steven E Sommer M.D.
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
1906 Belleview Ave SE Roanoke VA, 24014About
Dr. Steven Sommer is a critical care surgeon practicing in Roanoke, VA. Dr. Sommer specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Sommer has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Correlation of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay titers with protection against infectious bursal disease virus.
- Restriction fragment length polymorphisms in the VP2 gene of infectious bursal disease viruses from outside the United States.
- Polychlorinated biphenyls in Baltimore Harbor sediments.
- Polychlorinated biphenyls in Baltimore Harbor sediments.
- Antibody titers to infectious bursal disease virus in broiler chicks after vaccination at one day of age with infectious bursal disease virus and Marek's disease virus.
- Amino acid comparison of infectious bursal disease viruses placed in the same or different molecular groups by RT/PCR-RFLP.
- Use of a genetic marker for wild-type potentially pathogenic infectious bursal disease viruses.
- Virulent vaccine strains of infectious bursal disease virus not distinguishable from wild-type viruses with marker the use of a molecular.
- Development of a ssRNA internal control reagent for an infectious bursal disease virus reverse transcription/polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism diagnostic assay.
- Real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction detection and analysis of nucleotide sequences coding for a neutralizing epitope on infectious bursal disease viruses.
- Nucleotide and amino acid sequence analysis of a birnavirus isolated from penguins.
- Molecular studies on suspect very virulent infectious bursal disease virus genomic RNA samples.
- Telemedicine intervention improves ICU outcomes.
- Determination of aflatoxins in peanuts.
- Determination of aflatoxins in peanuts.
Dr. Steven E Sommer M.D.'s Practice location
Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
1906 Belleview Ave SE -Roanoke, VA 24014Get Direction
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