Dr. Costi D Sifri MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Lee St Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Costi Sifri is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Sifri 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.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Multidrug resistance in Leishmania donovani is conferred by amplification of a gene homologous to the mammalian mdr1 gene.
- The worm has turned--microbial virulence modeled in Caenorhabditis elegans.
- Staphylococcal biofilm exopolysaccharide protects against Caenorhabditis elegans immune defenses.
- Functional characterization of TcaA: minimal requirement for teicoplanin susceptibility and role in Caenorhabditis elegans virulence.
- A pathway for phagosome maturation during engulfment of apoptotic cells.
- Healthcare epidemiology: quorum sensing: bacteria talk sense.
- Not so innocuous.
- Herpes simplex virus hepatitis after renal transplantation.
- Early development of lactic acidosis with short term linezolid treatment in a renal recipient.
- Group Milleri Streptococci in paediatric infections.
- Pneumonia in solid organ recipients: spectrum of pathogens in 217 episodes.
- Fatal cross infection by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella in two liver transplant recipients.
- Fatal septic thrombosis of the superior sagittal sinus after face-lift surgery caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- MsrR contributes to cell surface characteristics and virulence in Staphylococcus aureus.
- Cefepime-associated status epilepticus in an ICU patient with renal failure.
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