Robert W Coombs
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Uwmc-Roosevelt 4245 Roosevelt Way N Seattle WA, 98105About
Dr. Robert Coombs is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Seattle, WA. Dr. Coombs 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
Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine 1981
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Protein conformation in bacterial spinae.
- The HIV type 1 protease inhibitor saquinavir can select for multiple mutations that confer increasing resistance.
- Unintegrated HIV-1 circular 2-LTR proviral DNA as a marker of recently infected cells: relative effect of recombinant CD4, zidovudine, and saquinavir in vitro.
- Effect of zidovudine on perinatal HIV-1 transmission and maternal viral load. Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group 076 Study Group.
- The contribution of assay variation and biological variation to the total variability of plasma HIV-1 RNA measurements. The Women Infant Transmission Study Clinics. Virology Quality Assurance Program.
- Reduced mobilization of CD34+ stem cells in advanced human immunodeficiency virus type 1 disease.
- Association of antiretroviral therapy with detection of HIV-1 RNA and DNA in the anorectal mucosa of homosexual men.
- Multicenter evaluation of methods to quantitate human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA in seminal plasma.
- Performance characteristics of the QUANTIPLEX HIV-1 RNA 3.0 assay for detection and quantitation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA in plasma.
- Placebo-controlled trial of cyclosporin-A in HIV-1 disease: implications for solid organ transplantation.
- The menstrual cycle does not affect human immunodeficiency virus type 1 levels in vaginal secretions.
- Spinin: the subunit protein of bacterial spinae.
- Recent observations on HIV type-1 infection in the genital tract of men and women.
- Factors associated with oropharyngeal human immunodeficiency virus shedding.
- Viricidal effect of polymorphonuclear leukocytes on human immunodeficiency virus-1. Role of the myeloperoxidase system.
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Practice At Uwmc-Roosevelt 4245 Roosevelt Way Ne
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