Dr. Jeffrey A Gelfand MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
55 Fruit St S50-801 Infectious D Boston MA, 02114Rating
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Dr. Jeffrey Gelfand is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Gelfand 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
Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1971
Tufts University School of Medicine 1971
Board Certification
Allergy and ImmunologyAmerican Board of Allergy and ImmunologyABAI
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Hereditary angioedema: the use of fresh frozen plasma for prophylaxis in patients undergoing oral surgery.
- Active Histoplasma meningitis of 22 years' duration.
- Hereditary angioedema: the clinical syndrome and its management.
- Age-associated decline in resistance to Babesia microti is genetically determined.
- Interleukin-1 upregulates anaphylatoxin receptors on mononuclear cells.
- Relative production of IL-1 beta and TNF alpha by mononuclear cells after exposure to dental implants.
- Species-specific bacteria identification using differential mobility spectrometry and bioinformatics pattern recognition.
- Babesia microti primarily invades mature erythrocytes in mice.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 17-2007. A 25-year-old woman with relapsing fevers and recent onset of dyspnea.
- A specific receptor antagonist for interleukin 1 prevents Escherichia coli-induced shock in rabbits.
- Complement activation by vascular sutures both alone and in combination with synthetic vascular prostheses.
- Picogram concentrations of endotoxin stimulate synthesis of IL-1 beta and TNF alpha by human peripheral blood mononuclear cells exposed to recombinant human C5a.
- Experimental hemorrhage and blunt trauma do not increase circulating tumor necrosis factor.
- Staphylococcus epidermidis induces complement activation, tumor necrosis factor
- A novel laser vaccine adjuvant increases the motility of antigen presenting cells.
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