Dr. Stuart M Levitz M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
55 Lake Ave N Worcester MA, 01655Rating
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About
Dr. Stuart Levitz is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Worcester, MA. Dr. Levitz 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
New York Univ Sch of Med, New York Ny 1979
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Interactions of Penicillium marneffei with human leukocytes in vitro.
- Evidence of zoonotic transmission of Cryptococcus neoformans from a pet cockatoo to an immunocompromised patient.
- Effect of interleukin (IL)-15 priming on IL-12 and interferon-gamma production by pathogen-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells from human immunodeficiency virus-seropositive and -seronegative donors.
- Stimulation of macrophage inflammatory protein-1alpha, macrophage inflammatory protein-1beta, and RANTES by Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from persons with and without human immunodeficiency virus
- Conditional lethality of the diprotic weak bases chloroquine and quinacrine against Cryptococcus neoformans.
- Chloroquine interferes with lipopolysaccharide-induced TNF-alpha gene expression by a nonlysosomotropic mechanism.
- Chloroquine and the fungal phagosome.
- Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection of alveolar macrophages impairs their innate fungicidal activity.
- Human neutrophil-mediated nonoxidative antifungal activity against Cryptococcus neoformans.
- Cryptococcosis: clinical and biological aspects.
- Chloroquine antagonizes the proinflammatory cytokine response to opportunistic fungi by alkalizing the fungal phagolysosome.
- Toll-like receptor 4 mediates intracellular signaling without TNF-alpha release in response to Cryptococcus neoformans polysaccharide capsule.
- Molecular characterization of a mannoprotein with homology to chitin deacetylases that stimulates T cell responses to Cryptococcus neoformans.
- Cryptococcus neoformans: intracellular or extracellular?
- Does amoeboid reasoning explain the evolution and maintenance of virulence factors in Cryptococcus neoformans?
Awards
- 2009 American Association of Physicians
- Infectious Diseases Society of America 1993 Fellow
- American Academy of Microbiology 1994 Fellow
- American Association for the Advancement of Science 2013 Fellow
Professional Memberships
- Member UMass Memorial Medical Group
Fellowships
- Boston Univ Medical Center, Fellow 1982
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