Dr. Paul K Drain M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
50 Staniford St #943 Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Paul Drain is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Drain 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
Ross University School Of Medicine, Roseau, Commonwealth Of Dominica, West Indies MD 1998
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Single-dose versus multi-dose vaccine vials for immunization programmes in developing countries.
- Micronutrients in HIV-positive persons receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy.
- C-reactive protein independently predicts HIV-related outcomes among women and children in a resource-poor setting.
- Global health. Fifty years of U.S. embargo: Cuba's health outcomes and lessons.
- Bring global health and global medicine home--in reply to Ventres and Page and to Asgary.
- Recurrent giant molluscum contagiosum immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) after initiation of antiretroviral therapy in an HIV-infected man.
- Educational objectives for international medical electives: a literature review.
- Diagnostic accuracy and clinical role of rapid C-reactive protein testing in
- Ebola: lessons learned from HIV and tuberculosis epidemics.
- A systematic review of hepatic tuberculosis with considerations in human immunodeficiency virus co-infection.
- Author response to "Poor specificity of urinary cryptococcal antigen testing".
- Implications of Repealing the Cuban Embargo for US Medicine and Public Health.
- The arrival of a true point-of-care molecular assay-ready for global implementation?
- Impact of point-of-care diagnostics on maternal outcomes in HIV-infected women: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.
- Rapid Urine LAM Testing Improves Diagnosis of Expectorated Smear-Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis in an HIV-endemic Region.
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