Dr. Eric J Rubin MD PHD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
75 Francis St Brigham And Womens H Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Eric Rubin is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Rubin 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
Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1990
Tufts University School of Medicine 1990
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A genome-scale analysis for identification of genes required for growth or survival of Haemophilus influenzae.
- Genomic analyses of microbial virulence.
- Construction of a mariner-based transposon for epitope-tagging and genomic targeting.
- Genes required for mycobacterial growth defined by high density mutagenesis.
- Bacterial genomics and vaccine design.
- Genetic requirements for mycobacterial survival during infection.
- Tuberculosis. Advances in laboratory diagnosis and drug susceptibility testing.
- The folate pathway is a target for resistance to the drug para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS) in mycobacteria.
- Toward a new therapy for tuberculosis.
- Genome-wide requirements for Mycobacterium tuberculosis adaptation and survival
- New genetic approaches shed light on TB virulence.
- Genome-wide RNAi screen for host factors required for intracellular bacterial infection.
- Drosophila RNAi screen reveals CD36 family member required for mycobacterial infection.
- Differential antibiotic susceptibilities of starved Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates.
- A new site-specific integration system for mycobacteria.
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