William Ripley Ballou
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
14200 SHADY GROVE RD ROCKVILLE MD, 20850About
Dr. William Ballou is an infectious disease specialist practicing in ROCKVILLE, MD. Dr. Ballou 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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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Induction of T helper type 1 and 2 responses to 19-kilodalton merozoite surface protein 1 in vaccinated healthy volunteers and adults naturally exposed to malaria.
- Protection of humans against malaria by immunization with radiation-attenuated Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites.
- Devices for rapid diagnosis of Malaria: evaluation of prototype assays that
- Development of a recombinant FimCH vaccine for urinary tract infections.
- Efficacy of the RTS,S/AS02A vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum infection and disease in young African children: randomised controlled trial.
- Towards an RTS,S-based, multi-stage, multi-antigen vaccine against falciparum malaria: progress at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
- Malaria vaccines in development.
- Duration of protection with RTS,S/AS02A malaria vaccine in prevention of Plasmodium falciparum disease in Mozambican children: single-blind extended follow-up of a randomised controlled trial.
- Phase 1 safety and immunogenicity trial of malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS02A in adults in a hyperendemic region of western Kenya.
- RTS,S/AS02A malaria vaccine does not induce parasite CSP T cell epitope selection and reduces multiplicity of infection.
- Evaluation of two formulations of adjuvanted RTS, S malaria vaccine in children
- A phase I/IIa safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy bridging randomized study of a two-dose regimen of liquid and lyophilized formulations of the candidate malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS02A in malaria-naïve adults.
- Safety of the RTS,S/AS02D candidate malaria vaccine in infants living in a highly endemic area of Mozambique: a double blind randomised controlled phase I/IIb trial.
- Safety of the RTS,S/AS02A malaria vaccine in Mozambican children during a Phase IIb trial.
- Two decades of commitment to malaria vaccine development: GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals.
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