Dr. William Michael Geisler MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. William Geisler is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Geisler 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 Tn, Memphis, Coll of Med, Memphis Tn 1996
Georgetown University in Washington DC 1996
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease- 2001
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Epidemiology and clinical manifestations of unique Chlamydia trachomatis isolates that occupy nonfusogenic inclusions.
- Quantitative culture of Chlamydia trachomatis: relationship of inclusion-forming units produced in culture to clinical manifestations and acute inflammation in urogenital disease.
- Pneumonia and sepsis due to fluoroquinolone-resistant Capnocytophaga gingivalis after autologous stem cell transplantation.
- Epidemiology of anorectal chlamydial and gonococcal infections among men having sex with men in Seattle: utilizing serovar and auxotype strain typing.
- Chlamydia pneumoniae respiratory infection after allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
- Methodologies and cell lines used for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Chlamydia spp.
- The relationship of serovar to clinical manifestations of urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis infection.
- The prozone phenomenon in syphilis testing.
- Approaches to the management of uncomplicated genital Chlamydia trachomatis infections.
- Phenytoin hypersensitivity syndrome masquerading as fever and systemic illness of unknown origin in an HIV-infected patient.
- Interleukin (IL)-2 and IL-12 responses to Chlamydia trachomatis infection in adolescents.
- Association of Chlamydia trachomatis Serovar Ia infection with black race in a sexually transmitted diseases clinic patient population in Birmingham, Alabama.
- Evaluating eosinophilia in the primary care setting.
- Two cases of pott disease associated with bilateral psoas abscesses: case report.
- Management of uncomplicated Chlamydia trachomatis infections in adolescents and adults: evidence reviewed for the 2006 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines.
Fellowships
- University of Washington Medical Center 1999
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