Dr. John L Ho MD
Hospitalist
One Medical Center Drive Biddeford ME, 04005About
Dr. John Ho is a hospitalist practicing in Biddeford, ME. Dr. Ho specializes in the comprehensive medical care of hospitalized patients. As a hospitalist, Dr. Ho manages the clinical problems of hospitalized patients and the acutely ill, while working to improve the performance of the hospital. Dr. Ho works in collaboration with all of the different doctors that are working with the patient. Hospitalists are involved in the diagnosis, treatment and medical procedures of patients.
Education and Training
New York College of Osteopathic Medicine / New York Institute of Technology 2002
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- PCR-based method to differentiate the subspecies of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex on the basis of genomic deletions.
- The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex-restricted gene cfp32 encodes an expressed protein that is detectable in tuberculosis patients and is positively correlated with pulmonary interleukin-10.
- Down-modulation of lung immune responses by interleukin-10 and transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) and analysis of TGF-beta receptors I and II in active tuberculosis.
- Spontaneous neutrophil activation in HTLV-1 infected patients.
- Differential effects of antigens from L. braziliensis isolates from disseminated and cutaneous leishmaniasis on in vitro cytokine production.
- Novel genetic polymorphisms that further delineate the phylogeny of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
- Enhanced patient serum immunoreactivity to recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis CFP32 produced in the yeast Pichia pastoris compared to Escherichia coli and its potential for serodiagnosis of tuberculosis.
- Oral pentoxifylline combined with pentavalent antimony: a randomized trial for mucosal leishmaniasis.
- Resistance of Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis and Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis to nitric oxide correlates with disease severity in Tegumentary Leishmaniasis.
- Discovery of a novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage that is a major cause of tuberculosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Application of sensitive and specific molecular methods to uncover global
- RDRio Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is associated with a higher frequency of cavitary pulmonary disease.
- Frequent homologous recombination events in Mycobacterium tuberculosis PE/PPE multigene families: potential role in antigenic variability.
- Correlations of mutations in katG, oxyR-ahpC and inhA genes and in vitro susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical strains segregated by spoligotype families from tuberculosis prevalent countries in South America.
- Tuberculosis is associated with a down-modulatory lung immune response that impairs Th1-type immunity.
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