Dr. Michael S Saag MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233Rating
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Dr. Michael Saag is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Saag 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 Louisville Sch of Med, Louisville Ky 1981
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease- 1988
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Knowledge and self-reported use of universal precautions in a university teaching hospital.
- Decrease of cytomegalovirus replication in human immunodeficiency virus infected-patients after treatment with highly active antiretroviral therapy.
- Safety and pharmacokinetics of once-daily regimens of soft-gel capsule saquinavir plus minidose ritonavir in human immunodeficiency virus-negative adults.
- HIV resistance testing in clinical practice: a Qaly-fied success.
- Health-related quality of life and virologic outcomes in an HIV clinic.
- The role of immunotherapy in the treatment of HIV.
- The impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy on HIV-specific immune function.
- Randomized, double-blind comparison of two nelfinavir doses plus nucleosides in HIV-infected patients (Agouron study 511).
- Impact of HIV type 1 drug resistance mutations and phenotypic resistance profile on virologic response to salvage therapy.
- Symptomatic lactic acidosis in hospitalized antiretroviral-treated patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection: a report of 12 cases.
- Immunologic and virologic consequences of temporary antiretroviral treatment interruption in clinical practice.
- Patient-perceived barriers to antiretroviral adherence: associations with race.
- Management of metabolic complications associated with antiretroviral therapy for HIV-1 infection: recommendations of an International AIDS Society-USA panel.
- Enfuvirtide.
- Duration of highly active antiretroviral therapy regimens.
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Fellowships
- University of Alabama at Birmingham 1985
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