Dr. Peter M Wiest MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2500 Metrohealth Dr Mhmc-medicine/Infect Cleveland OH, 44109About
Dr. Peter Wiest is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Cleveland, OH. Dr. Wiest 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
Drexel University College of Medicine
MCP HAHNEMANN UNIV (FORMERLY ALLEGHENY UNIV) 1981
HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE 1981
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Intestinal parasites in patients with diarrhea and human immunodeficiency virus infection in Zimbabwe.
- Enterocytozoon bieneusi infection in patients without evidence of immunosuppression: two cases from Zimbabwe found to have positive stools by PCR.
- Genetic component to susceptibility to Trichuris trichiura: evidence from two Asian populations.
- Inhibition of phosphoinositide turnover by praziquantel in Schistosoma mansoni.
- The epidemiology of morbidity of schistosomiasis.
- Morbidity due to schistosomiasis japonica in the People's Republic of China.
- Clinical schistosomiasis.
- Schistosoma mansoni: protein phosphorylation during transformation of cercariae to schistosomula.
- [Clinico-epidemiological investigation of schistosome-induced hepatosplenomegaly: a community-based study in Jishan, Xinjian County, Jiangxi].
- Screening of murine monoclonal antibodies against living schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni by radioimmunoassay.
- Traveler's diarrhea: methods of prevention and treatment.
- Inhibition of surface membrane maturation in schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni.
- Activation of protein kinase C by phorbol esters disrupts the tegument of Schistosoma mansoni.
- Systemic strongyloidiasis in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. A report of 3 cases and review of the literature.
- Human monoclonal antibodies against Cryptosporidium parvum generated by hypo-osmolar electrofusion.
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