Dr. Phillip Irwin Tarr MD
Gastroenterologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Gastroenterology
1 Childrens Pl Saint Louis MO, 63110About
Dr. Phillip Tarr is a pediatric gastroenterologist practicing in Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Tarr specializes in digestive system, liver or nutritional problems in children from the newborn period to their teens. Conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, lactose intolerance, chronic constipation or obesity can all be treated by a pediatric gastroenterologist.
Education and Training
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1980
Yale School of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Gastroenterology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Escherichia coli O157:H7 in retail ground beef in Seattle: results of a one-year
- Antimotility agents and E. coli infection.
- Food-borne and water-borne infections and the gastroenterologist.
- Biocontrol of Escherichia coli O157 with O157-specific bacteriophages.
- Bacterial DNA in mixed cholesterol gallstones.
- The risk of the hemolytic-uremic syndrome after antibiotic treatment of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections.
- Comparison of Escherichia coli O157:H7 antigen detection in stool and broth cultures to that in sorbitol-MacConkey agar stool cultures.
- Acquisition of the rfb-gnd cluster in evolution of Escherichia coli O55 and O157.
- von Willebrand factor and von Willebrand factor-cleaving metalloprotease activity
- Thrombogenic alleles, Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections, and hemolytic uremic syndrome.
- Escherichia coli O157:H7.
- Identification and characterization of a novel genomic island integrated at selC in locus of enterocyte effacement-negative, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli.
- Prothrombotic coagulation abnormalities preceding the hemolytic-uremic syndrome.
- Basic fibroblast growth factor and Shiga toxin-O157:H7-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome.
- Rebuttal to: von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease in childhood diarrhoea-associated haemolytic uraemic syndrome.
Treatments
- Pain
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