Ms. Dana Wasson Dunne M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
17 Hillhouse Ave New Haven CT, 06511About
Dr. Dana Dunne is an infectious disease specialist practicing in New Haven, CT. Dr. Dunne 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
SUNY Downstate Medical Center College Of Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Molecular identification of a 21.7 kDa schistosoma japonicum antigen as a target of the human IgE response.
- Adult resistance to schistosomiasis mansoni: age-dependence of reinfection remains constant in communities with diverse exposure patterns.
- Selectin and Lewis(x) are required as co-receptors in antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity of human eosinophils to Schistosoma mansoni schistosomula.
- Tolerization of mice to Schistosoma mansoni egg antigens causes elevated type 1 and diminished type 2 cytokine responses and increased mortality in acute infection.
- Infection with Schistosoma mansoni prevents insulin dependent diabetes mellitus in non-obese diabetic mice.
- Development of antibody isotype responses to Schistosoma mansoni in an immunologically naive immigrant population: influence of infection duration, infection intensity, and host age.
- Nitric oxide and the Th2 response combine to prevent severe hepatic damage during Schistosoma mansoni infection.
- Paramyosin is a major target of the human IgA response against Schistosoma japonicum.
- Immunology of hepatosplenic schistosomiasis mansoni: a human perspective.
- Elevated type 1, diminished type 2 cytokines and impaired antibody response are associated with hepatotoxicity and mortalities during Schistosoma mansoni infection of CD4-depleted mice.
- Immune responses during the acute stages of infection with the intestinal trematode Echinostoma caproni.
- Expression of interleukin-9 leads to Th2 cytokine-dominated responses and fatal enteropathy in mice with chronic Schistosoma mansoni infections.
- Defective in vivo induction of functional type 2 cytokine responses in aged mice.
- Immunisation of sheep against Schistosoma mattheei using either irradiated cercariae or irradiated schistosomula.
- Human IgE responses to Schistosoma mansoni and resistance to reinfection.
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