Dr. Mark Steven Pasternack MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
15 Parkman St Wac 612 Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Mark Pasternack is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Pasternack 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 1975
Harvard Medical School 1975
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Inhibitory effect of haptoglobin on granulocyte chemotaxis, phagocytosis and bactericidal activity.
- Cloning and expression of secretagogin, a novel neuroendocrine- and pancreatic islet of Langerhans-specific Ca2+-binding protein.
- The ATP-dependent helicase RUVBL1/TIP49a associates with tubulin during mitosis.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 19-2007 - a 19-year-old college student with fever and joint pain.
- Granzyme A binding to target cell proteins. Granzyme A binds to and cleaves nucleolin in vitro.
- Decontamination strategies for MRSA-colonized patients.
- Twenty-first century therapy? Short-course treatment of pediatric hematogenous septic arthritis.
- Adult respiratory distress syndrome associated with parainfluenza virus type 1 in children.
- Impact and management of Campylobacter in human medicine--US perspective.
- Recognition and lysis of target cells by cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
- Combined antibody and ganciclovir treatment of murine cytomegalovirus-infected normal and immunosuppressed BALB/c mice.
- Activation requirements for antigen- and mitogen-induced interferon-gamma release from cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
- Cytotoxic T-lymphocytes.
- Serine esterase in cytolytic T lymphocytes.
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