Dr. Benjamin Elison Gewurz M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
15 Francis St, Brigham And Women's Jamaica Plain MA, 02130About
Dr. Benjamin Gewurz is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Jamaica Plain, MA. Dr. Gewurz 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 Medical School 2003
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- B7 costimulation is critical for antibody class switching and CD8(+) cytotoxic T-lymphocyte generation in the host response to vesicular stomatitis virus.
- Viral subversion of the immune system.
- Human cytomegalovirus US2 endoplasmic reticulum-lumenal domain dictates association with major histocompatibility complex class I in a locus-specific manner.
- Virus subversion of immunity: a structural perspective.
- US2, a human cytomegalovirus-encoded type I membrane protein, contains a non-cleavable amino-terminal signal peptide.
- Localization of sequence-determined neoepitopes and neutrophil digestion fragments of C-reactive protein utilizing monoclonal antibodies and synthetic peptides.
- Reactivity of anti-human C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid P component (SAP) monoclonal antibodies with limulin and pentraxins of other species.
- DNA-damage control: Claspin destruction turns off the checkpoint.
- Human babesiosis.
- IRF7 activation by Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein 1 requires localization at activation sites and TRAF6, but not TRAF2 or TRAF3.
- Epstein-Barr latent membrane protein 1 transformation site 2 activates NF-kappaB in the absence of NF-kappaB essential modifier residues 133-224 or 373-419.
- Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 3C regulated genes in lymphoblastoid cell lines.
- Canonical NF-kappaB activation is essential for Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein 1 TES2/CTAR2 gene regulation.
- NF-κB and IRF7 pathway activation by Epstein-Barr virus Latent Membrane Protein 1.
- The NF-κB genomic landscape in lymphoblastoid B cells.
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