
Dr. David Joseph Diemert MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Va Medical Center Washington Dc 50 Irving Street Nw Washington DC, 20422About
Dr. David Diemert is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Diemert 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
University Of Alberta Faculty Of Med and Dentistry Edmonton Ab Canada 1995
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Confirmation by 16S rRNA PCR of the COBAS AMPLICOR CT/NG test for diagnosis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in a low-prevalence population.
- Prevention and self-treatment of travelers' diarrhea.
- Phase 1 vaccine trial of Pvs25H: a transmission blocking vaccine for Plasmodium vivax malaria.
- Prevention and self-treatment of traveler's diarrhea.
- Re: Clinical trials in tropical diseases: a politically incorrect view.
- Impact of a Plasmodium falciparum AMA1 vaccine on antibody responses in adult Malians.
- Hookworm vaccines.
- Age patterns in undernutrition and helminth infection in a rural area of Brazil: associations with ascariasis and hookworm.
- Randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial of the Na-ASP-2 hookworm vaccine in unexposed adults.
- Can schistosomiasis really be consigned to history without a vaccine?
- Hookworm, Ascaris lumbricoides infection and polyparasitism associated with poor cognitive performance in Brazilian schoolchildren.
- Health education through analogies: preparation of a community for clinical trials of a vaccine against hookworm in an endemic area of Brazil.
- Potency testing for the experimental Na-GST-1 hookworm vaccine.
- Developing vaccines to combat hookworm infection and intestinal schistosomiasis.
- Necator americanus and helminth co-infections: further down-modulation of hookworm-specific type 1 immune responses.
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Nearby Providers
- Barnett Gibbs M.D., FACC8901 Wisconsin Ave Bethesda MD 20889
- Dr. Gelareh K Alavi M.D.11211 Waples Mill Rd Fairfax VA 22030
- Ali Afad Arastu1701 North George Mason Drive Arlington Virginia 22205
- Dr. Miriam Louise Cameron MD700 2nd St Ne Washington DC 20002
- Dr. Eric David Reines M.D.6300 Stevenson Ave Alexandria VA 22304
- Dr. Amy M. Treakle MD8988 Lorton Station Blvd Lorton VA 22079
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110 IRVING ST NW WASHINGTON DC 20010HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALl
2041 GEORGIA AVE NW WASHINGTON DC 20060