«This is an important proof - of - principle that the test can really be used in a field setting,»
says infectious disease doctor Charles Chiu of the University of California, San Francisco, who was not involved in the study.
Not exact matches
«This was the golden era of the germ theory,»
says University of South Carolina internal medicine and
infectious disease specialist Charles Bryan, author of Asylum
Doctor: James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague of Pellagra.
«This is the first time he's signaled that he's going to champion global HIV in this way,»
says Jennifer Cohn, an assistant professor of
infectious diseases at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and a policy adviser in Nairobi for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; also known as
Doctors Without Borders).
«A dominant protein like that is like a loud person in a room,»
says study coauthor Betsy Herold, a pediatric
infectious disease doctor.
«We were surprised by the performance,»
says Nira Pollock, an
infectious disease doctor at Boston Children's Hospital and an author of the new study.
Robert Colebunders, an
infectious disease clinician at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, who was involved in treating Ebola patients in the 1995 outbreak,
says if there are survivors willing to donate blood,
doctors should try the therapy.
Even two weeks of warning would help
doctors diagnose cases of the flu earlier and urge still - healthy people to adopt preventive measures,
says Dr. Polgreen, who has studied social networks and
infectious disease but wasn't involved in the new research.