Dr. Paula I Watnick MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
300 Longwood Ave Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Paula Watnick is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Watnick 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
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1991
Yale School of Medicine 1991
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Genetic approaches to study of biofilms.
- Steps in the development of a Vibrio cholerae El Tor biofilm.
- The absence of a flagellum leads to altered colony morphology, biofilm development and virulence in Vibrio cholerae O139.
- Paula I Watnick--elucidating the role of biofilms. Interview by Pam Das.
- Vibrio cholerae CytR is a repressor of biofilm development.
- Environmental determinants of Vibrio cholerae biofilm development.
- Role of ectoine in Vibrio cholerae osmoadaptation.
- The Vibrio cholerae O139 O-antigen polysaccharide is essential for Ca2+-dependent biofilm development in sea water.
- Genetic evidence that the Vibrio cholerae monolayer is a distinct stage in biofilm development.
- Role for glycine betaine transport in Vibrio cholerae osmoadaptation and biofilm formation within microbial communities.
- Identification of novel stage-specific genetic requirements through whole genome transcription profiling of Vibrio cholerae biofilm development.
- Vibrio cholerae infection of Drosophila melanogaster mimics the human disease cholera.
- NspS, a predicted polyamine sensor, mediates activation of Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation by norspermidine.
- Hydrophobic mismatch in gramicidin A'/lecithin systems.
- A novel role for enzyme I of the Vibrio cholerae phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase system in regulation of growth in a biofilm.
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