Dr. William A O'brien MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
301 University Blvd Galveston TX, 77555About
Dr. William O'brien is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Galveston, TX. Dr. O'brien 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
Univ of Mn Med Sch-Minneapolis, Minneapolis Mn 1982
University of Minnesota Medical School 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- HIV-1 replication cycle.
- Special issues in the management of patients with ESRD and HIV infection.
- Potential role for CD63 in CCR5-mediated human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection of macrophages.
- New classes of HIV drugs on the horizon. A review of the presentation at the satellite symposium "New hope: advancing care in HIV infection" at the 15th annual Association of Nurses in AIDS Care conference, November 2002.
- Combinatorial selection, inhibition, and antiviral activity of DNA thioaptamers targeting the RNase H domain of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase.
- Saquinavir/Ritonavir: its evolution and current treatment role.
- Evolution of HIV resistance mutations in patients maintained on a stable treatment regimen after virologic failure.
- A critical role for CD63 in HIV replication and infection of macrophages and cell lines.
- Impact of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase inhibitor drug resistance mutation interactions on phenotypic susceptibility.
- A functional role for ADAM10 in human immunodeficiency virus type-1 replication.
- Inhibition of influenza A virus replication by antagonism of a PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway member identified by gene-trap insertional mutagenesis.
- Nuclear trafficking of the HIV-1 pre-integration complex depends on the ADAM10 intracellular domain.
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