Dr. Philip F Sparling MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
101 Manning Dr Chapel Hill NC, 27599About
Dr. Philip Sparling is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Sparling 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1962
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Longitudinal evaluation of serovar-specific immunity to Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
- Familial deficiency of the seventh component of complement associated with recurrent bacteremic infections due to Neisseria.
- Familial deficiency of the seventh component of complement associated with recurrent bacteremic infections due to Neisseria.
- Cell envelope alterations in antibiotic-sensitive and-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
- Cell envelope alterations in antibiotic-sensitive and-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
- Ferric enterobactin binding and utilization by Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
- An epidemiological evaluation of the use of microbiological tools for identifying gonorrhoea infection networks.
- Proposed changes for NIH's Center for Scientific Review. Panel on Scientific Boundaries for Review. Center for Scientific Review Advisory Committee, National Institutes of Health.
- Surveillance for ampicillin-resistant Haemophilus influenzae type b strains in North Carolina.
- Transformation-derived Neisseria gonorrhoeae plasmids with altered structure and function.
- Transformation-derived Neisseria gonorrhoeae plasmids with altered structure and function.
- Phase variation of the gonococcal siderophore receptor FetA.
- Antigenic and sequence diversity in gonococcal transferrin-binding protein A.
- Neisserial TonB-dependent outer-membrane proteins: detection, regulation and
- Antibiotic resistance in H. influenzae and N. gonorrhoeae.
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