Dr. James M Fleckenstein MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1030 Jefferson Ave Research (151) Memphis TN, 38104About
Dr. James Fleckenstein is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Memphis, TN. Dr. Fleckenstein 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
St Louis Univ Sch of Med, St Louis Mo 1985
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Interaction of an uuter membrane protein of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli with cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans.
- Identification and molecular characterization of EatA, an autotransporter protein of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
- Importance of heat-labile enterotoxin in colonization of the adult mouse small intestine by human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains.
- Identification of a two-partner secretion locus of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
- Directed delivery of heat-labile enterotoxin by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
- The EtpA exoprotein of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli promotes intestinal colonization and is a protective antigen in an experimental model of murine infection.
- Heat-labile enterotoxin promotes Escherichia coli adherence to intestinal
- Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli EtpA mediates adhesion between flagella and host cells.
- Vaccination with EtpA glycoprotein or flagellin protects against colonization with enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in a murine model.
- Purification of recombinant high molecular weight two-partner secretion proteins from Escherichia coli.
- Molecular mechanisms of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection.
- Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli elicits immune responses to multiple surface proteins.
- Lingual leishmaniasis complicating visceral disease.
- Adhesin degradation accelerates delivery of heat-labile toxin by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
- Outer membrane vesicles induce immune responses to virulence proteins and protect against colonization by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
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