Dr. Jay Alan Fishman MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
55 Fruit St Grj 5 Infectious Dis Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Jay Fishman is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Fishman 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
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1979
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1979
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Regulation of xenotransplantation: are we asking the right questions?
- Listeria monocytogenes infection in caspase-11-deficient mice.
- Activation of cytomegalovirus in pig-to-primate organ xenotransplantation.
- Combination antiviral therapy for ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus infection in solid-organ transplant recipients.
- BK virus nephropathy--polyomavirus adding insult to injury.
- BK nephropathy: what is the role of antiviral therapy?
- Porcine cytomegalovirus and coagulopathy in pig-to-primate xenotransplantation.
- Smallpox and live-virus vaccination in transplant recipients.
- SARS, xenotransplantation and bioterrorism: preventing the next epidemic.
- Reduced efficacy of ganciclovir against porcine and baboon cytomegalovirus in pig-to-baboon xenotransplantation.
- Transplantation for patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus: no longer experimental but not yet routine.
- Suppression of natural and elicited antibodies in pig-to-baboon heart transplantation using a human anti-human CD154 mAb-based regimen.
- Identification of exogenous forms of human-tropic porcine endogenous retrovirus in miniature Swine.
- Failure of low-dose atovaquone prophylaxis against Pneumocystis jiroveci infection in transplant recipients.
- Activation of porcine cytomegalovirus, but not porcine lymphotropic herpesvirus, in pig-to-baboon xenotransplantation.
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