Dr. Stephen Wayne Hosea MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
320 W Pueblo St Room 6 S06 Santa Barbara CA, 93105About
Dr. Stephen Hosea is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Santa Barbara, CA. Dr. Hosea 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1973
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Diagnosis of vertebral osteomyelitis in a community hospital by using computed tomography.
- The role of complement in the induction of antibody responses.
- Hereditary angioedema.
- The role of antibody and complement in the reticuloendothelial clearance of pneumococci from the bloodstream.
- Role of the spleen in pneumococcal infection.
- The requirement of specific anticapsular IgG for killing of Haemophilus influenzae by the alternative pathway of complement activation.
- Danazole in the treatment of hereditary angioedema.
- The use of conglutinin in a quantitative assay for the presence of cell-bound C3bi and evidence that a single molecule of C3bi is capable of binding conglutinin.
- The role of the spleen in experimental pneumococcal bacteremia.
- The role of complement in the localization of pneumococci in the splanchnic reticuloendothelial system during experimental bacteremia.
- Reticuloendothelial clearance of radiolabelled pneumococci in experimental bacteremia: correlation of changes in clearance rates, sequestration patterns, and opsonization requirements at different phases of the bacterial growth cycle.
- The selective hepatic uptake of desialylated peripheral blood mononuclear cells in rabbits.
- The critical role of complement in experimental pneumococcal sepsis.
- Virulent streptococcus viridans bacterial endocarditis.
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