Dr. Brett Ryan Laurence MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3401 N Broad St 4th Floor Philadelphia PA, 19140Rating
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Dr. Brett Laurence is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Laurence 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- Infectious Disease
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Satanicoptes armatus, n. gen., n.sp. (Astigmata: Sarcoptidae), a new mite producing mange in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii Boitard).
- Micro-organisms in filarial larvae (Nematoda).
- The breeding of Taeniorhynchus (subgenus Mansonioides) mosquitoes in the laboratory.
- THE PROBLEM OF STABILIZING CONDITIONS OF LARVAL CULTURE IN MOSQUITO COLONIES.
- Flight muscle ultrastructure of susceptible and refractory mosquitoes parasitized by larval Brugia pahangi.
- Flight muscle ultrastructure of susceptible and refractory mosquitoes parasitized by larval Brugia pahangi.
- The behaviour and development of Brugia patei (Buckley, Nelson and Heisch, 1958) in a mosquito host, Mansonia uniformis (Theobald).
- Comparative pulmonary toxicity assessment of single-wall carbon nanotubes in rats.
- Old world blowflies in the new world.
- Filariasis in history.
- The global dispersal of Bancroftian filariasis.
- Elephantiasis in early Polynesia.
- Natural mortality in two filarial vectors.
- Sciapodes in tropical medicine.
- Culture-negative bivalvular endocarditis with myocardial destruction in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report.
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