Dr. Paul A Goepfert MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. Paul Goepfert is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Goepfert 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.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- An endoplasmic reticulum retrieval signal partitions human foamy virus maturation to intracytoplasmic membranes.
- Characterization of the R572T point mutant of a putative cleavage site in human foamy virus Env.
- A significant number of human immunodeficiency virus epitope-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes detected by tetramer binding do not produce gamma interferon.
- Polymorphisms in HLA class I genes associated with both favorable prognosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 infection and positive cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses to ALVAC-HIV recombinant canarypox vaccines.
- Magnitude of functional CD8+ T-cell responses to the gag protein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 correlates inversely with viral load in plasma.
- Human immunodeficiency virus-specific CD8(+) T cells in human breast milk.
- Foamy virus envelope glycoprotein is sufficient for particle budding and release.
- Antigen burden is major determinant of human immunodeficiency virus-specific CD8+ T cell maturation state: potential implications for therapeutic immunization.
- Making sense of the HIV immune response.
- Cross-reactive CD8+ T cell epitopes identified in US adolescent minorities.
- The foamy virus envelope glycoproteins.
- Paucity of antigen-specific IgA responses in sera and external secretions of HIV-type 1-infected individuals.
- CD8 T-cell responses in early HIV-1 infection are skewed towards high entropy peptides.
- Breast milk-derived antigen-specific CD8+ T cells: an extralymphoid effector memory cell population in humans.
- Increased levels of galactose-deficient IgG in sera of HIV-1-infected individuals.
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