Dr. John Ks Chia MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
23560 Crenshaw Blvd Suite 101 Torrance CA, 90505Rating
4/5
About
An infectious disease specialist, Dr. Chia began working with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients in the early 1990?s when they came flooding into his practice after his partner wrote an article ...
Education and Training
Univ of Ca, Los Angeles, Ucla Sch of Med, Los Angeles Ca 1979
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Dr. John Ks Chia MD's Expert Contributions
What are the viruses that could cause pneumonia?
Get a respiratory virus PCR panel (test about 14-22 viruses, usually done in a hospital, but specimen can be submitted as an outpatient) with a nasopharyngeal swab, as soon as possible. This is likely Enterovirus/Rhinovirus, and the positive sample can be referred to CDC for further work-up. John Chia READ MORE
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Chronic Chlamydia pneumoniae infection: a treatable cause of chronic fatigue syndrome.
- Trovofloxacin for the treatment of chronic granuloma inguinale.
- Diverse etiologies for chronic fatigue syndrome.
- Pulmonary infiltrate and pleural effusion in a diabetic man.
- The role of enterovirus in chronic fatigue syndrome.
- Enterovirus infection as a possible cause of pityriasis rosea: demonstration by immunochemical staining.
- Intestinal intussusception in adults due to acute enterovirus infection.
- Antibody to parvovirus B19 nonstructural protein is associated with chronic arthralgia in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis.
- Acute gastritis associated with enterovirus infection.
- Varicella-zoster virus reactivation during acute enterovirus infection is associated with CD8 lymphocytopenia.
- Fluorescence-activated cell sorter analysis of binding by lipopolysaccharide-specific monoclonal antibodies to gram-negative bacteria.
- In vitro tumor necrosis factor induction assay for analysis of febrile toxicity associated with amphotericin B preparations.
- Functionally distinct monoclonal antibodies reactive with enzymatically active and binding domains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa toxin A.
- Monoclonal antibodies that recognize epitopes in the core and lipid A region of lipopolysaccharides.
- Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-reactive monoclonal antibodies fail to inhibit LPS-induced tumor necrosis factor secretion by mouse-derived macrophages.
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