Dr. Rodger D Macarthur MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4201 St Antoine Suite 7b Detroit MI, 48201About
Dr. Rodger Macarthur is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Detroit, MI. Dr. Macarthur 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 Il Coll of Med, Chicago Il 1983
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Aerobic exercise training fails to lower hypertriglyceridemia levels in persons with advanced HIV-1 infection.
- Adequacy of early empiric antibiotic treatment and survival in severe sepsis: experience from the MONARCS trial.
- Antibody to enterobacterial common antigen and gram-negative sepsis.
- A randomized clinical trial comparing nelfinavir and ritonavir in patients with advanced HIV disease (CPCRA 042/CTN 102).
- An updated guide to genotype interpretation.
- Efficacy and safety of the monoclonal anti-tumor necrosis factor antibody F(ab')2 fragment afelimomab in patients with severe sepsis and elevated interleukin-6 levels.
- Darunavir: promising initial results.
- Mild-to-moderate symptoms during the first year of antiretroviral therapy worsen quality of life in HIV-infected individuals.
- Reviews of anti-infective agents: maraviroc: the first of a new class of antiretroviral agents.
- Poor initial CD4+ recovery with antiretroviral therapy prolongs immune depletion and increases risk for AIDS and non-AIDS diseases.
- Virologic, immunologic, clinical, safety, and resistance outcomes from a
- New antiretroviral drugs: a review of the efficacy, safety, pharmacokinetics, and resistance profile of tipranavir, darunavir, etravirine, rilpivirine, maraviroc, and raltegravir.
- Understanding HIV phenotypic resistance testing: usefulness in managing treatment-experienced patients.
- Antiretroviral medication adherence and class- specific resistance in a large prospective clinical trial.
- Profile of etravirine for the treatment of HIV infection.
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