Dr. Bret K Purcell
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1425 Porter St Frederick MD, 21702About
Dr. Bret Purcell is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Frederick, MD. Dr. Purcell 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
The University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio 1995
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Pathogenesis and sepsis caused by organisms potentially utilized as biologic weapons: opportunities for targeted intervention.
- The effect of harp music on heart rate, mean blood pressure, respiratory rate, and body temperature in the African green monkey.
- An alternative approach to combination vaccines: intradermal administration of isolated components for control of anthrax, botulism, plague and staphylococcal toxic shock.
- Pathology of inhalational Francisella tularensis spp. tularensis SCHU S4 infection in African green monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops).
- Activity of dalbavancin against Bacillus anthracis in vitro and in a mouse inhalation anthrax model.
- In vitro antibiotic susceptibilities of Yersinia pestis determined by broth microdilution following CLSI methods.
- Complementation analyses of recombinant plasmids encoding type 1 fimbriae of members of the family Enterobacteriaceae.
- Antibiotic Susceptibilities of Francisella tularensis Determined by Broth Microdilution following CLSI Methods.
- Characterization of genes encoding type 1 fimbriae of Klebsiella pneumoniae, Salmonella typhimurium, and Serratia marcescens.
- Nucleotide sequences of the genes encoding type 1 fimbrial subunits of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Salmonella typhimurium.
- Construction and expression of recombinant plasmids encoding type 1 fimbriae of a urinary Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate.
- Rapidly fatal infection due to Photobacterium (Vibrio) damsela.
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