Dr. Barbara Excell Menzies M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
620 Skyline Dr Infectious Disease D Jackson TN, 38301Rating
2/5
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Dr. Barbara Menzies is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Jackson, TN. Dr. Menzies 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
Vanderbilt Univ Sch of Med, Nashville Tn 1988
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1988
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Staphylococcus aureus alpha-toxin induces apoptosis in endothelial cells.
- Inhibition of staphylococcal wound infection and potentiation of antibiotic prophylaxis by a recombinant fragment of the fibronectin-binding protein of Staphylococcus aureus.
- The role of fibronectin binding proteins in the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus
- Staphylococcus aureus infection of epidermal keratinocytes promotes expression of innate antimicrobial peptides.
- Signal transduction and nuclear responses in Staphylococcus aureus-induced expression of human beta-defensin 3 in skin keratinocytes.
- Axillary abscess due to Yersinia enterocolitica.
- Growth of Staphylococcus aureus with nafcillin in vitro induces alpha-toxin production and increases the lethal activity of sterile broth filtrates in a murine model.
- Site-directed mutagenesis of the alpha-toxin gene of Staphylococcus aureus: role of histidines in toxin activity in vitro and in a murine model.
- Passive immunization with antiserum to a nontoxic alpha-toxin mutant from Staphylococcus aureus is protective in a murine model.
- Expression of an antisense hla fragment in Staphylococcus aureus reduces alpha-toxin production in vitro and attenuates lethal activity in a murine model.
- Recombinant expression and characterization of the major beta-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- Internalization of Staphylococcus aureus by endothelial cells induces apoptosis.
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