Dr. Robert Steven Wallis M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
55 Saunders Hollow Rd Old Lyme CT, 06371About
Dr. Robert Wallis is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Old Lyme, CT. Dr. Wallis 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.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Enhanced production of recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in Escherichia coli by replacement of low-usage codons.
- PPD-specific IgG1 antibody subclass upregulate tumour necrosis factor expression in PPD-stimulated monocytes: possible link with disease pathogenesis in tuberculosis.
- Opsonizing antibodies (IgG1) up-regulate monocyte proinflammatory cytokines tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and IL-6 but not anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 in mycobacterial antigen-stimulated monocytes-implications for pathogenesis.
- Adult tuberculosis in the 21st century: pathogenesis, clinical features, and management.
- Bactericidal activity in whole blood as a potential surrogate marker of immunity after vaccination against tuberculosis.
- The overt fears of Dakota Indian children.
- TB chemotherapy: antagonism between immunity and sterilization.
- A study of the safety, immunology, virology, and microbiology of adjunctive etanercept in HIV-1-associated tuberculosis.
- Lack of activity of orally administered clofazimine against intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis in whole-blood culture.
- Granulomatous infections due to tumor necrosis factor blockade: correction.
- Sutton's law.
- Survival and replication of clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in the context of human innate immunity.
- Tumor necrosis factor and granuloma biology: explaining the differential infection risk of etanercept and infliximab.
- Can studies of the early bactericidal activity of rifapentine tell us how to prevent acquired rifamycin-resistant relapse?
- Reactivation of latent granulomatous infections by infliximab.
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