Dr. Sarah E. Boyd M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
5844 Nw Barry Rd Suite 300 Kansas City MO, 64154About
Dr. Sarah Boyd is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Kansas City, MO. Dr. Boyd 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Management of Staphylococcus aureus infections.
- Elucidation of the substrate specificity of the MASP-2 protease of the lectin complement pathway and identification of the enzyme as a major physiological target of the serpin, C1-inhibitor.
- Caspase-8 cleaves histone deacetylase 7 and abolishes its transcription repressor function.
- Subsite cooperativity in protease specificity.
- The Systems Biology Graphical Notation.
- Characterization of a serine protease homologous to house dust mite group 3 allergens from the scabies mite Sarcoptes scabiei.
- Cascleave: towards more accurate prediction of caspase substrate cleavage sites.
- Bioinformatic approaches for predicting substrates of proteases.
- Discovery of amino acid motifs for thrombin cleavage and validation using a model substrate.
- Computational characterization of 3' splice variants in the GFAP isoform family.
- Software support for SBGN maps: SBGN-ML and LibSBGN.
- A Bayesian method for comparing and combining binary classifiers in the absence of a gold standard.
- Systems approaches in integrative cardiac biology: illustrations from cardiac heterocellular signalling studies.
- VISIONET: intuitive visualisation of overlapping transcription factor networks, with applications in cardiogenic gene discovery.
- Microarray profiling to analyse adult cardiac fibroblast identity.
Professional Memberships
- Member Saint Luke's Care
Fellowships
- Med/Infectious Disea, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 2005
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