Eric R. Houpt
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Lee St Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Eric Houpt is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Houpt 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 1999
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Multiplex real-time PCR assay using Scorpion probes and DNA capture for genotype-specific detection of Giardia lamblia on fecal samples.
- Giardia assemblage A infection and diarrhea in Bangladesh.
- Cryptosporidium parvum bovine genotype oocysts in the respiratory samples of an AIDS patient: efficacy of treatment with a combination of azithromycin and paromomycin.
- Real-time PCR detection and speciation of Cryptosporidium infection using Scorpion probes.
- Bronchoalveolar neutrophils, interferon gamma-inducible protein 10 and interleukin-7 in AIDS-associated tuberculosis.
- Low CD4 count plus coma predicts cryptococcal meningitis in Tanzania.
- IMS-free DNA extraction for the PCR-based quantification of Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia in surface and waste water.
- High prevalence of Entamoeba moshkovskii in a Tanzanian HIV population.
- Infection risk assessment of diarrhea-related pathogens in a tropical canal network.
- Persistence of Entamoeba histolytica infection in CBA mice owes to intestinal IL-4 production and inhibition of protective IFN-gamma.
- Protection against intestinal amebiasis by a recombinant vaccine is transferable by T cells and mediated by gamma interferon.
- Giardia intestinalis assemblages A and B infections in Nepal.
- The NF-kappaB p50 subunit is protective during intestinal Entamoeba histolytica infection of 129 and C57BL/6 mice.
- Epithelial cell apoptosis facilitates Entamoeba histolytica infection in the gut.
- A novel Entamoeba histolytica cysteine proteinase, EhCP4, is key for invasive amebiasis and a therapeutic target.
Fellowships
- Infectious Diseases, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA 2002
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