Dr. Davidson H. Hamer MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
725 Albany Street Shapiro 9, Suite B Boston MA, 02118About
Dr. Davidson Hamer is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Hamer 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
Univ of Vt Coll of Med, Burlington Vt 1987
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Non-linear association between the serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism and neuroticism: a caution against using extreme samples to identify quantitative trait loci.
- Interaction between the serotonin transporter gene and neuroticism in cigarette smoking behavior.
- Treatment of nosocomial pneumonia and tracheobronchitis caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa with aerosolized colistin.
- High-throughput SNP genotyping by allele-specific PCR with universal energy-transfer-labeled primers.
- Immune function in the elderly.
- Foodborne Illnesses.
- Pleiotropy of the serotonin transporter gene for seasonality and neuroticism.
- Association of DRD4 with attention problems in normal childhood development.
- Covariance structure of neuroticism and agreeableness: a twin and molecular genetic analysis of the role of the serotonin transporter gene.
- Incidence and predictors of surgical-site infections in Vietnam.
- From the farm to the kitchen table: the negative impact of antimicrobial use in animals on humans.
- Treatment of Staphylococcus epidermidis ventriculo-peritoneal shunt infection with linezolid.
- Risk of hemolytic uremic syndrome from antibiotic treatment of Escherichia coli O157:H7 colitis.
- Characterization of talc and associated minerals.
- Beyond hormones: a novel hypothesis for the biological basis of male sexual orientation.
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