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Benjamin Luft, MD
Infectious Diseases
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Professor of Medicine
Publications
- DSM-IV post-traumatic stress disorder among World Trade Center responders 11-13 years after the disaster of 11 September 2001 (9/11).
Bromet EJ | Hobbs MJ | Clouston SA | Gonzalez A | Kotov R | Luft BJ
Psychological medicine
2016 Mar - Mortality among World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers, 2002-2011.
Stein CR | Wallenstein S | Shapiro M | Hashim D | Moline JM | Udasin I | Crane MA | Luft BJ | Lucchini RG | Holden WL
American journal of industrial medicine
2016 Feb - Ixodes tick saliva suppresses the keratinocyte cytokine response to TLR2/TLR3 ligands during early exposure to Lyme borreliosis.
Bernard Q | Gallo RL | Jaulhac B | Nakatsuji T | Luft B | Yang X | Boulanger N
Experimental dermatology
2016 Jan - Smoking to Regulate Negative Affect: Disentangling the Relationship Between Posttraumatic Stress and Emotional Disorder Symptoms, Nicotine Dependence, and Cessation-Related Problems.
Mahaffey BL | Gonzalez A | Farris SG | Zvolensky MJ | Bromet EJ | Luft BJ | Kotov R
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
2015 Aug 24 - Erratum for Martin et al., Phylogenomic Identification of Regulatory Sequences in Bacteria: an Analysis of Statistical Power and an Application to Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato.
Martin CL | Sukarna TY | Akther S | Ramrattan G | Pagan P | Di L | Mongodin EF | Fraser CM | Schutzer SE | Luft BJ | Casjens SR | Qiu WG
mBio
2015 - Cohort Profile: World Trade Center Health Program General Responder Cohort.
Dasaro CR | Holden WL | Berman KD | Crane MA | Kaplan JR | Lucchini RG | Luft BJ | Moline JM | Teitelbaum SL | Tirunagari US | Udasin IG | Weiner JH | Zigrossi PA | Todd AC
International journal of epidemiology
2015 Jun 20 - World Trade Center disaster and sensitization to subsequent life stress: A longitudinal study of disaster responders.
Zvolensky MJ | Farris SG | Kotov R | Schechter CB | Bromet E | Gonzalez A | Vujanovic A | Pietrzak RH | Crane M | Kaplan J | Moline J | Southwick SM | Feder A | Udasin I | Reissman DB | Luft BJ
Preventive medicine
2015 Jun - Posttraumatic stress disorder and the risk of respiratory problems in World Trade Center responders: longitudinal test of a pathway.
Kotov R | Bromet EJ | Schechter C | Broihier J | Feder A | Friedman-Jimenez G | Gonzalez A | Guerrera K | Kaplan J | Moline J | Pietrzak RH | Reissman D | Ruggero C | Southwick SM | Udasin I | Von Korff M | Luft BJ
Psychosomatic medicine
2015 May - Phylogenomic identification of regulatory sequences in bacteria: an analysis of statistical power and an application to Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato.
Martin CL | Sukarna TY | Akther S | Ramrattan G | Pagan P | Di L | Mongodin EF | Fraser CM | Schutzer SE | Luft BJ | Casjens SR | Qiu WG
mBio
2015 - Post-disaster stressful life events and WTC-related posttraumatic stress, depressive symptoms, and overall functioning among responders to the World Trade Center disaster.
Zvolensky MJ | Kotov R | Schechter CB | Gonzalez A | Vujanovic A | Pietrzak RH | Crane M | Kaplan J | Moline J | Southwick SM | Feder A | Udasin I | Reissman DB | Luft BJ
Journal of psychiatric research
2015 Feb - Anxiety sensitivity mediates the association between post-traumatic stress symptom severity and interoceptive threat-related smoking abstinence expectancies among World Trade Center disaster-exposed smokers.
Farris SG | Paulus DJ | Gonzalez A | Mahaffey BL | Bromet EJ | Luft BJ | Kotov R | Zvolensky MJ
Addictive behaviors
2015 Dec - Posttraumatic stress symptoms and smoking among World Trade Center disaster responders: A longitudinal investigation.
Zvolensky MJ | Farris SG | Kotov R | Schechter CB | Bromet E | Gonzalez A | Vujanovic A | Pietrzak RH | Crane M | Kaplan J | Moline J | Southwick SM | Feder A | Udasin I | Reissman DB | Luft BJ
Comprehensive psychiatry
2015 Nov - Consequences of toxic disasters for rescue, recovery, and clean-up workers require integrated mental and physical health monitoring: Editorial comment for social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology.
Bromet EJ | Luft BJ
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
2015 Nov - Kidney tubular-cell secretion of osteoblast growth factor is increased by kaempferol: a scientific basis for the kidney controlling the bone theory of Chinese medicine.
Long M | Li SX | Xiao JF | Wang J | Lozanoff S | Zhang ZG | Luft BJ | Johnson F
Chinese journal of integrative medicine
2014 Sep - BorreliaBase: a phylogeny-centered browser of Borrelia genomes.
Di L | Pagan PE | Packer D | Martin CL | Akther S | Ramrattan G | Mongodin EF | Fraser CM | Schutzer SE | Luft BJ | Casjens SR | Qiu WG
BMC bioinformatics
2014 - Dimensional structure and course of post-traumatic stress symptomatology in World Trade Center responders.
Pietrzak RH | Feder A | Schechter CB | Singh R | Cancelmo L | Bromet EJ | Katz CL | Reissman DB | Ozbay F | Sharma V | Crane M | Harrison D | Herbert R | Levin SM | Luft BJ | Moline JM | Stellman JM | Udasin IG | El-Gabalawy R | Landrigan PJ | Southwick SM
Psychological medicine
2014 Jul - Longitudinal study of the impact of psychological distress symptoms on new-onset upper gastrointestinal symptoms in World Trade Center responders.
Litcher-Kelly L | Lam Y | Broihier JA | Brand DL | Banker SV | Kotov R | Bromet E | Bucobo JC | Shaw RD | Luft BJ
Psychosomatic medicine
2014 Nov-Dec - Trajectories of PTSD risk and resilience in World Trade Center responders: an 8-year prospective cohort study.
Pietrzak RH | Feder A | Singh R | Schechter CB | Bromet EJ | Katz CL | Reissman DB | Ozbay F | Sharma V | Crane M | Harrison D | Herbert R | Levin SM | Luft BJ | Moline JM | Stellman JM | Udasin IG | Landrigan PJ | Southwick SM
Psychological medicine
2014 Jan - Safety and immunogenicity of a novel multivalent OspA vaccine against Lyme borreliosis in healthy adults: a double-blind, randomised, dose-escalation phase 1/2 trial.
Wressnigg N | Pollabauer EM | Aichinger G | Portsmouth D | Low-Baselli A | Fritsch S | Livey I | Crowe BA | Schwendinger M | Bruhl P | Pilz A | Dvorak T | Singer J | Firth C | Luft B | Schmitt B | Zeitlinger M | Muller M | Kollaritsch H | Paulke-Korinek M | Esen M | Kremsner PG | Ehrlich HJ | Barrett PN
The Lancet infectious diseases
2013 Aug - Cancer incidence in world trade center rescue and recovery workers, 2001-2008.
Solan S | Wallenstein S | Shapiro M | Teitelbaum SL | Stevenson L | Kochman A | Kaplan J | Dellenbaugh C | Kahn A | Biro FN | Crane M | Crowley L | Gabrilove J | Gonsalves L | Harrison D | Herbert R | Luft B | Markowitz SB | Moline J | Niu X | Sacks H | Shukla G | Udasin I | Lucchini RG | Boffetta P | Landrigan PJ
Environmental health perspectives
2013 Jun - PTSD symptom dimensions and their relationship to functioning in World Trade Center responders.
Ruggero CJ | Kotov R | Callahan JL | Kilmer JN | Luft BJ | Bromet EJ
Psychiatry research
2013 Dec 30 - Inter- and intra-specific pan-genomes of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato: genome stability and adaptive radiation.
Mongodin EF | Casjens SR | Bruno JF | Xu Y | Drabek EF | Riley DR | Cantarel BL | Pagan PE | Hernandez YA | Vargas LC | Dunn JJ | Schutzer SE | Fraser CM | Qiu WG | Luft BJ
BMC genomics
2013 - The burden of full and subsyndromal posttraumatic stress disorder among police involved in the World Trade Center rescue and recovery effort.
Pietrzak RH | Schechter CB | Bromet EJ | Katz CL | Reissman DB | Ozbay F | Sharma V | Crane M | Harrison D | Herbert R | Levin SM | Luft BJ | Moline JM | Stellman JM | Udasin IG | Landrigan PJ | Southwick SM
Journal of psychiatric research
2012 Jul - Exposure, probable PTSD and lower respiratory illness among World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up workers.
Luft BJ | Schechter C | Kotov R | Broihier J | Reissman D | Guerrera K | Udasin I | Moline J | Harrison D | Friedman-Jimenez G | Pietrzak RH | Southwick SM | Bromet EJ
Psychological medicine
2012 May - Genome stability of Lyme disease spirochetes: comparative genomics of Borrelia burgdorferi plasmids.
Casjens SR | Mongodin EF | Qiu WG | Luft BJ | Schutzer SE | Gilcrease EB | Huang WM | Vujadinovic M | Aron JK | Vargas LC | Freeman S | Radune D | Weidman JF | Dimitrov GI | Khouri HM | Sosa JE | Halpin RA | Dunn JJ | Fraser CM
PloS one
2012 - Whole-genome sequences of Borrelia bissettii, Borrelia valaisiana, and Borrelia spielmanii.
Schutzer SE | Fraser-Liggett CM | Qiu WG | Kraiczy P | Mongodin EF | Dunn JJ | Luft BJ | Casjens SR
Journal of bacteriology
2012 Jan - Persistence of multiple illnesses in World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers: a cohort study.
Wisnivesky JP | Teitelbaum SL | Todd AC | Boffetta P | Crane M | Crowley L | de la Hoz RE | Dellenbaugh C | Harrison D | Herbert R | Kim H | Jeon Y | Kaplan J | Katz C | Levin S | Luft B | Markowitz S | Moline JM | Ozbay F | Pietrzak RH | Shapiro M | Sharma V | Skloot G | Southwick S | Stevenson LA | Udasin I | Wallenstein S | Landrigan PJ
Lancet
2011 Sep 3 - Sarcoid like granulomatous pulmonary disease in World Trade Center disaster responders.
Crowley LE | Herbert R | Moline JM | Wallenstein S | Shukla G | Schechter C | Skloot GS | Udasin I | Luft BJ | Harrison D | Shapiro M | Wong K | Sacks HS | Landrigan PJ | Teirstein AS
American journal of industrial medicine
2011 Mar - Whole genome sequence of an unusual Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato isolate.
Casjens SR | Fraser-Liggett CM | Mongodin EF | Qiu WG | Dunn JJ | Luft BJ | Schutzer SE
Journal of bacteriology
2011 Mar - Whole-genome sequences of thirteen isolates of Borrelia burgdorferi.
Schutzer SE | Fraser-Liggett CM | Casjens SR | Qiu WG | Dunn JJ | Mongodin EF | Luft BJ
Journal of bacteriology
2011 Feb - A new approach to a Lyme disease vaccine.
Livey I | O'Rourke M | Traweger A | Savidis-Dacho H | Crowe BA | Barrett PN | Yang X | Dunn JJ | Luft BJ
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
2011 Feb - Antialarmin effect of tick saliva during the transmission of Lyme disease.
Marchal C | Schramm F | Kern A | Luft BJ | Yang X | Schuijt TJ | Hovius JW | Jaulhac B | Boulanger N
Infection and immunity
2011 Feb - Whole-genome sequences of two Borrelia afzelii and two Borrelia garinii Lyme disease agent isolates.
Casjens SR | Mongodin EF | Qiu WG | Dunn JJ | Luft BJ | Fraser-Liggett CM | Schutzer SE
Journal of bacteriology
2011 Dec - Response to Dr. Reich's letter: 'Sarcoid-like' granulomatous pulmonary disease in world trade center disaster responders: influence of incidence computation methodology in inferring airborne dust causation: Sarcoid-like granulomatous pulmonary disease in World Trade Center disaster responders.
Crowley LE | Herbert R | Moline JM | Wallenstein S | Shukla G | Schechter C | Skloot GS | Udasin I | Luft BJ | Harrison D | Shapiro M | Wong K | Sacks HS | Teirstein AS | Landrigan PJ
American journal of industrial medicine
2011 Nov - Pervasive recombination and sympatric genome diversification driven by frequency-dependent selection in Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease bacterium.
Haven J | Vargas LC | Mongodin EF | Xue V | Hernandez Y | Pagan P | Fraser-Liggett CM | Schutzer SE | Luft BJ | Casjens SR | Qiu WG
Genetics
2011 Nov - Respiratory symptoms were associated with lower spirometry results during the first examination of WTC responders.
Udasin I | Schechter C | Crowley L | Sotolongo A | Gochfeld M | Luft B | Moline J | Harrison D | Enright P
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine / American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
2011 Jan - Genotypic variation and mixtures of Lyme Borrelia in Ixodes ticks from North America and Europe.
Crowder CD | Matthews HE | Schutzer S | Rounds MA | Luft BJ | Nolte O | Campbell SR | Phillipson CA | Li F | Sampath R | Ecker DJ | Eshoo MW
PloS one
2010 - Ineffectiveness of tigecycline against persistent Borrelia burgdorferi.
Barthold SW | Hodzic E | Imai DM | Feng S | Yang X | Luft BJ
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
2010 Feb - Proteome analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi response to environmental change.
Angel TE | Luft BJ | Yang X | Nicora CD | Camp DG 2nd | Jacobs JM | Smith RD
PloS one
2010 - Fast, adaptive evolution at a bacterial host-resistance locus: the PFam54 gene array in Borrelia burgdorferi.
Wywial E | Haven J | Casjens SR | Hernandez YA | Singh S | Mongodin EF | Fraser-Liggett CM | Luft BJ | Schutzer SE | Qiu WG
Gene
2009 Sep 15 - Multiple myeloma in World Trade Center responders: a case series.
Moline JM | Herbert R | Crowley L | Troy K | Hodgman E | Shukla G | Udasin I | Luft B | Wallenstein S | Landrigan P | Savitz DA
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine / American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
2009 Aug - In vitro activity of tigecycline against multiple strains of Borrelia burgdorferi.
Yang X | Nguyen A | Qiu D | Luft BJ
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
2009 Apr - Longitudinal assessment of spirometry in the World Trade Center medical monitoring program.
Skloot GS | Schechter CB | Herbert R | Moline JM | Levin SM | Crowley LE | Luft BJ | Udasin IG | Enright PL
Chest
2009 Feb - Defensin is suppressed by tick salivary gland extract during the in vitro interaction of resident skin cells with Borrelia burgdorferi.
Marchal CM | Luft BJ | Yang X | Sibilia J | Jaulhac B | Boulanger NM
The Journal of investigative dermatology
2009 Oct - Enduring mental health morbidity and social function impairment in world trade center rescue, recovery, and cleanup workers: the psychological dimension of an environmental health disaster.
Stellman JM | Smith RP | Katz CL | Sharma V | Charney DS | Herbert R | Moline J | Luft BJ | Markowitz S | Udasin I | Harrison D | Baron S | Landrigan PJ | Levin SM | Southwick S
Environmental health perspectives
2008 Sep - Wide distribution of a high-virulence Borrelia burgdorferi clone in Europe and North America.
Qiu WG | Bruno JF | McCaig WD | Xu Y | Livey I | Schriefer ME | Luft BJ
Emerging infectious diseases
2008 Jul - WTC medical monitoring and treatment program: comprehensive health care response in aftermath of disaster.
Moline JM | Herbert R | Levin S | Stein D | Luft BJ | Udasin IG | Landrigan PJ
The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York
2008 Mar-Apr - Characterization of clinically-attenuated Burkholderia mallei by whole genome sequencing: candidate strain for exclusion from Select Agent lists.
Schutzer SE | Schlater LR | Ronning CM | DeShazer D | Luft BJ | Dunn JJ | Ravel J | Fraser-Liggett CM | Nierman WC
PloS one
2008 - Profiling the humoral immune response to Borrelia burgdorferi infection with protein microarrays.
Xu Y | Bruno JF | Luft BJ
Microbial pathogenesis
2008 Nov-Dec - Rapid detection and identification of a pathogen's DNA using Phi29 DNA polymerase.
Xu Y | Gao S | Bruno JF | Luft BJ | Dunn JJ
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
2008 Oct 31 - Co-evolution of the outer surface protein C gene (ospC) and intraspecific lineages of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto in the northeastern United States.
Attie O | Bruno JF | Xu Y | Qiu D | Luft BJ | Qiu WG
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases
2007 Jan - Cerebral toxoplasmosis in AIDS.
Chirch LM | Luft BJ
Handbook of clinical neurology
2007 - The World Trade Center disaster and the health of workers: five-year assessment of a unique medical screening program.
Herbert R | Moline J | Skloot G | Metzger K | Baron S | Luft B | Markowitz S | Udasin I | Harrison D | Stein D | Todd A | Enright P | Stellman JM | Landrigan PJ | Levin SM
Environmental health perspectives
2006 Dec - Characterization of a unique borreliacidal epitope on the outer surface protein C of Borrelia burgdorferi.
Yang X | Li Y | Dunn JJ | Luft BJ
FEMS immunology and medical microbiology
2006 Oct - Structure-based design of a second-generation Lyme disease vaccine based on a C-terminal fragment of Borrelia burgdorferi OspA.
Koide S | Yang X | Huang X | Dunn JJ | Luft BJ
Journal of molecular biology
2005 Jul 8 - Flavonoid of Drynaria fortunei protects against acute renal failure.
Long M | Qiu D | Li F | Johnson F | Luft B
Phytotherapy research : PTR
2005 May - Proteomic analysis of Lyme disease: global protein comparison of three strains of Borrelia burgdorferi.
Jacobs JM | Yang X | Luft BJ | Dunn JJ | Camp DG 2nd | Smith RD
Proteomics
2005 Apr - Identification of novel tick salivary gland proteins for vaccine development.
Xu Y | Bruno JF | Luft BJ
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
2005 Jan 28 - Genetic exchange and plasmid transfers in Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto revealed by three-way genome comparisons and multilocus sequence typing.
Qiu WG | Schutzer SE | Bruno JF | Attie O | Xu Y | Dunn JJ | Fraser CM | Casjens SR | Luft BJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2004 Sep 28 - Flavanoid of Drynaria fortunei protects against gentamicin ototoxicity.
Long M | Smouha EE | Qiu D | Li F | Johnson F | Luft B
Phytotherapy research : PTR
2004 Aug - Detection of genetic diversity in linear plasmids 28-3 and 36 in Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto isolates by subtractive hybridization.
Xu Y | Bruno JF | Luft BJ
Microbial pathogenesis
2003 Dec - Human T lymphocyte response to Borrelia burgdorferi infection: no correlation between human leukocyte function antigen type 1 peptide response and clinical status.
Kalish RS | Wood JA | Golde W | Bernard R | Davis LE | Grimson RC | Coyle PK | Luft BJ
The Journal of infectious diseases
2003 Jan 1 - Randomized phase II trial of atovaquone with pyrimethamine or sulfadiazine for treatment of toxoplasmic encephalitis in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: ACTG 237/ANRS 039 Study. AIDS Clinical Trials Group 237/Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le SIDA, Essai 039.
Chirgwin K | Hafner R | Leport C | Remington J | Andersen J | Bosler EM | Roque C | Rajicic N | McAuliffe V | Morlat P | Jayaweera DT | Vilde JL | Luft BJ
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
2002 May 1 - Geographic uniformity of the Lyme disease spirochete (Borrelia burgdorferi) and its shared history with tick vector (Ixodes scapularis) in the Northeastern United States.
Qiu WG | Dykhuizen DE | Acosta MS | Luft BJ
Genetics
2002 Mar - Approaches toward the directed design of a vaccine against Borrelia burgdorferi.
Luft BJ | Dunn JJ | Lawson CL
The Journal of infectious diseases
2002 Feb 15 - Vaccines for Lyme disease.
Younus F | Luft BJ
Current clinical topics in infectious diseases
2001 - Immunoblot profile as predictor of toxoplasmic encephalitis in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
Leport C | Franck J | Chene G | Derouin F | Ecobichon JL | Pueyo S | Miro JM | Luft BJ | Morlat P | Dumon H
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology
2001 May - Crystal structure of outer surface protein C (OspC) from the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi.
Kumaran D | Eswaramoorthy S | Luft BJ | Koide S | Dunn JJ | Lawson CL | Swaminathan S
The EMBO journal
2001 Mar 1 - Dose-escalation, phase I/II study of azithromycin and pyrimethamine for the treatment of toxoplasmic encephalitis in AIDS.
Jacobson JM | Hafner R | Remington J | Farthing C | Holden-Wiltse J | Bosler EM | Harris C | Jayaweera DT | Roque C | Luft BJ
AIDS (London, England)
2001 Mar 30 - Central Nervous System Toxoplasmosis in HIV Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Therapy.
Luft BJ | Chua A
Current infectious disease reports
2000 Aug - Recombinant chimeric Borrelia proteins for diagnosis of Lyme disease.
Gomes-Solecki MJ | Dunn JJ | Luft BJ | Castillo J | Dykhuizen DE | Yang X | Glass JD | Dattwyler RJ
Journal of clinical microbiology
2000 Jul - Practice guidelines for the treatment of Lyme disease. The Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Wormser GP | Nadelman RB | Dattwyler RJ | Dennis DT | Shapiro ED | Steere AC | Rush TJ | Rahn DW | Coyle PK | Persing DH | Fish D | Luft BJ
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
2000 Jul - Structural identification of a key protective B-cell epitope in Lyme disease antigen OspA.
Ding W | Huang X | Yang X | Dunn JJ | Luft BJ | Koide S | Lawson CL
Journal of molecular biology
2000 Oct 6 - 1H, 13C, and 15N NMR backbone assignments of 37 kDa surface antigen OspC from Borrelia burgdorferi.
Huang X | Link K | Koide A | Dunn JJ | Luft BJ | Koide S
Journal of biomolecular NMR
1999 Jul - Four clones of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto cause invasive infection in humans.
Seinost G | Dykhuizen DE | Dattwyler RJ | Golde WT | Dunn JJ | Wang IN | Wormser GP | Schriefer ME | Luft BJ
Infection and immunity
1999 Jul - Infection with multiple strains of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto in patients with Lyme disease.
Seinost G | Golde WT | Berger BW | Dunn JJ | Qiu D | Dunkin DS | Dykhuizen DE | Luft BJ | Dattwyler RJ
Archives of dermatology
1999 Nov - Genetic diversity of ospC in a local population of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto.
Wang IN | Dykhuizen DE | Qiu W | Dunn JJ | Bosler EM | Luft BJ
Genetics
1999 Jan - NMR identification of epitopes of Lyme disease antigen OspA to monoclonal antibodies.
Huang X | Yang X | Luft BJ | Koide S
Journal of molecular biology
1998 Aug 7 - Intention-to-treat vs. on-treatment analyses of clinical trial data: experience from a study of pyrimethamine in the primary prophylaxis of toxoplasmosis in HIV-infected patients. ANRS 005/ACTG 154 Trial Group.
Chene G | Morlat P | Leport C | Hafner R | Dequae L | Charreau I | Aboulker JP | Luft B | Aubertin J | Vilde JL | Salamon R
Controlled clinical trials
1998 Jun - Simultaneous expression of Borrelia OspA and OspC and IgM response in cerebrospinal fluid in early neurologic Lyme disease.
Schutzer SE | Coyle PK | Krupp LB | Deng Z | Belman AL | Dattwyler R | Luft BJ
The Journal of clinical investigation
1997 Aug 15 - Ceftriaxone compared with doxycycline for the treatment of acute disseminated Lyme disease.
Dattwyler RJ | Luft BJ | Kunkel MJ | Finkel MF | Wormser GP | Rush TJ | Grunwaldt E | Agger WA | Franklin M | Oswald D | Cockey L | Maladorno D
The New England journal of medicine
1997 Jul 31 - Survival after AIDS-defining events in patients with < 200 lymphocytes CD4+ x 10(6)/L who are toxoplasmosis antibody positive. ANRS 005/ACTG 154 Trial Group.
Pueyo S | Salmi LR | Chene G | Leport C | Morlat P | Dequae L | Gregoire V | Hafner R | Vilde JL | Luft BJ | Aubertin J | Salamon R
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes and human retrovirology : official publication of the International Retrovirology Association
1997 Apr 15 - Crystal structure of Lyme disease antigen outer surface protein A complexed with an Fab.
Li H | Dunn JJ | Luft BJ | Lawson CL
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
1997 Apr 15 - Increased risk of toxoplasmic encephalitis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with pyrimethamine-related rash. ANRS 005-ACTG 154 Trial Group. Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le SIDA (ANRS-INSERM) and the NIAID-AIDS Clinical Trials Group.
Rousseau F | Pueyo S | Morlat P | Hafner R | Chene G | Leport C | Luft BJ | Miro J | Aubertin J | Salamon R | Vilde JL
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
1997 Mar - Toxoplasma pneumonia.
Mariuz P | Bosler EM | Luft BJ
Seminars in respiratory infections
1997 Mar - Duration of immunity to reinfection with tick-transmitted Borrelia burgdorferi in naturally infected mice.
Piesman J | Dolan MC | Happ CM | Luft BJ | Rooney SE | Mather TN | Golde WT
Infection and immunity
1997 Oct - A population genetic study of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto from eastern Long Island, New York, suggested frequency-dependent selection, gene flow and host adaptation.
Qiu WG | Bosler EM | Campbell JR | Ugine GD | Wang IN | Luft BJ | Dykhuizen DE
Hereditas
1997 - Pyrimethamine pharmacokinetics in human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients seropositive for Toxoplasma gondii.
Jacobson JM | Davidian M | Rainey PM | Hafner R | Raasch RH | Luft BJ
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
1996 Jun - Azithromycin compared with amoxicillin in the treatment of erythema migrans. A double-blind, randomized, controlled trial.
Luft BJ | Dattwyler RJ | Johnson RC | Luger SW | Bosler EM | Rahn DW | Masters EJ | Grunwaldt E | Gadgil SD
Annals of internal medicine
1996 May 1 - Histopathology of Peromyscus leucopus naturally infected with pathogenic NY-1 hantaviruses: pathologic markers of HPS viral infection in mice.
Lyubsky S | Gavrilovskaya I | L
Expertise
Education
- Fellowship: Stanford Hospital and Clinics, IM-Infect Disease, 1982
- Residency: Veterans Administration Medical Center, Internal Medicine, 1980
- Residency: New York University - Beth Israel, Internal Medicine, 1979
- Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 1976
Board Certifications
- Infectious Disease: American Board of Internal Medicine, 1982
- Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine, 1979
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