Dr. Gerald Henry Mazurek M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
1670 Clairmont Rd 151-P Decatur GA, 30033About
Dr. Gerald Mazurek practices Pulmonology in Decatur, GA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Mazurek manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine 1981
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Phenotypic characterization of pncA mutants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- Pyrazinamide-monoresistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the United States.
- Guidelines for using the QuantiFERON-TB test for diagnosing latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- DNA polymorphisms in strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: a tool for epidemiology.
- Specific detection of tuberculosis infection: an interferon-gamma-based assay using new antigens.
- Proteomic profiling of intact mycobacteria by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
- Large restriction fragment patterns of genomic Mycobacterium fortuitum DNA as strain-specific markers and their use in epidemiologic investigation of four nosocomial outbreaks.
- Chromosomal DNA fingerprint patterns produced with IS6110 as strain-specific markers for epidemiologic study of tuberculosis.
- Interferon-gamma release assays for diagnosing mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in renal dialysis patients.
- Pneumonia in chronic obstructive lung disease.
- Updated guidelines for using Interferon Gamma Release Assays to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection - United States, 2010.
- Unusual interferon gamma measurements with QuantiFERON-TB Gold and QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube tests.
- Predictors of discordant tuberculin skin test and QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube results in various high-risk groups.
- Multiple cytokines are released when blood from patients with tuberculosis is
- Within-subject interlaboratory variability of QuantiFERON-TB gold in-tube tests.
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