Dr. Edward W Hook MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233Rating
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Dr. Edward Hook is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Hook 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
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Under the influence: risky sexual behavior and substance abuse among driving under the influence offenders.
- Prevalence of gonococcal and chlamydial infections in commercial sex workers in a Peruvian Amazon city.
- Prospective study of barrier contraception for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases: study design and general characteristics of the study group.
- Health education of the public--the role of the physician.
- Further notes on the funding of GME: the college and Congress.
- Measured versus self-reported compliance with doxycycline therapy for chlamydia-associated syndromes: high therapeutic success rates despite poor compliance.
- Self-reported sexual activity and condom use among symptomatic clients attending STD clinics.
- Elimination of syphilis transmission in the United States: historic perspectives and practical considerations.
- Correlates of herpes simplex virus seroprevalence among women attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic.
- Limited local and systemic antibody responses to Neisseria gonorrhoeae during uncomplicated genital infections.
- Mucosal immunity in the genital tract: prospects for vaccines against sexually transmitted diseases--a review.
- Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis endocervical infections by ligase chain reaction versus ACCESS Chlamydia antigen assay.
- Trichomonas vaginalis--no longer a minor STD.
- Mechanical failure of the latex condom in a cohort of women at high STD risk.
- Azithromycin compared with penicillin G benzathine for treatment of incubating syphilis.
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