Dr. Peter G Pappas MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. Peter Pappas is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Pappas 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Microascus cinereus (Anamorph scopulariopsis) brain abscess in a bone marrow transplant recipient.
- Sporotrichosis in Peru: description of an area of hyperendemicity.
- Practice guidelines for the treatment of candidiasis. Infectious Diseases Society of America.
- Practice guidelines for the management of patients with blastomycosis. Infectious Diseases Society of America.
- Reply to Dr. Chandrasekar (Clin Infect Dis 2001; 32:320-1) and Drs. Marr and Boeckh (Clin Infect Dis 2001; 32:321).
- Multicenter case-control study of risk factors for histoplasmosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected persons.
- Invasive mold infections in allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipients.
- Trends in frequency and susceptibilities of Candida glabrata bloodstream isolates
- Fungal brain abscess in transplant recipients: epidemiologic, microbiologic, and clinical features.
- Blastomycosis: Gilchrist's disease revisited.
- Blastomycosis.
- Donor-related coccidioidomycosis in organ transplant recipients.
- Epidemiology of Aspergillus terreus at a university hospital.
- Surgical treatment of multiple skull abscesses associated with coccidioidomycosis.
- Immunotherapy for invasive fungal infections: from bench to bedside.
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