Dr. Jody L. Baron M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
521 Parnassus Ave # C-443 San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Jody Baron is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Baron 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
Yale School of Medicine 1993
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Activation of a nonclassical NKT cell subset in a transgenic mouse model of hepatitis B virus infection.
- Blockade of NKG2D on NKT cells prevents hepatitis and the acute immune response to hepatitis B virus.
- IL-21 is pivotal in determining age-dependent effectiveness of immune responses
- Age-dependent hepatic lymphoid organization directs successful immunity to hepatitis B.
- Production of factor VIII by human liver sinusoidal endothelial cells transplanted in immunodeficient uPA mice.
- Liver capsule: Age-influenced hepatic immune priming determines HBV infection fate: Implications from mouse to man.
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