Dr. Gary P Richards D.C.
Chiropractor
5765 Merle Hay Rd Box 384 Johnston IA, 50131About
Dr. Gary Richards is a Chiropractor practicing in Johnston, IA. Dr. Richards specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating conditions associated with the neuromusculoskeletal system, while improving each patients functionality and quality of life. Conditions treated include sciatica, neck pain, and arthritis pain, among many others. Dr. Richards seeks to reduce pain and discomfort through manipulation and adjustment of the spine.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Detection of both hepatitis A virus and Norwalk-like virus in imported clams associated with food-borne illness.
- Inactivation of hepatitis A virus and a calicivirus by high hydrostatic pressure.
- Persistence of hepatitis A virus in oysters.
- A SYBR green, real-time RT-PCR method to detect and quantitate Norwalk virus in stools.
- Characterization of a lysyl aminopeptidase activity associated with phosphoglucose isomerase of Vibrio vulnificus.
- Structural and functional analyses of phosphoglucose isomerase from Vibrio vulnificus and its lysyl aminopeptidase activity.
- Genogroup I and II noroviruses detected in stool samples by real-time reverse transcription-PCR using highly degenerate universal primers.
- A survey for phosphoglucose isomerase with lysyl aminopeptidase activity in Vibrionaceae and non-Vibrio pathogens.
- Development of a simple and rapid fluorogenic procedure for identification of vibrionaceae family members.
- Specificity of a Vibrio vulnificus aminopeptidase toward kinins and other peptidyl substrates.
- A simple fluorogenic method to detect Vibrio cholerae and Aeromonas hydrophila in well water for areas impacted by catastrophic disasters.
- Seawater and shellfish (Geukensia demissa) quality along the Western Coast of Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland: an area impacted by feral horses and agricultural runoff.
- Fluorogenic Membrane Overlays to Enumerate Total and Fecal Escherichia coli and Total Vibrionaceae in Shellfish and Seawater.
- Modulation of responses of Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 to pH and temperature stresses by growth at different salt concentrations.
- Hemocytes are sites of enteric virus persistence within oysters.
Treatments
- Diversified
- Sacro-occipital Technique
- Applied Kinesiology
- Gonstead
- Activator Methods
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