Department of Pediatrics

Division of Infectious Diseases

Articles, Patents and Intellectual Property

Abdel-Haq NM, Abuhammour W, Asmar BI, Thomas R, Dabbagh S, and Gonzalez R:  Nasopharyngeal colonization with Streptococcus pneumoniae in children receiving oral trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis.  Ped Inf Dis J 18:7;647-649, 1999.

Abdel-Haq NM, Hao HN, and Lyman WD:  Cytokine regulation of CD40 expression in fetal human astrocyte cultures.  J Neuroimmunol Nov. 1;101(1):7-14, 1999.

Abuhammour W, Asmar BI:  Photo Quiz. A 16-year old male with fever, dysphagia, and weight loss.  Clinical Infectious Diseases 29:9, 1999. 

Abuhammour W, Abdel-Haq NM and Asmar BI:  Fever and petechial rash in a 13 year old girl. Picture of the Month in Arch Peds & Adolescent Med 153:87-88, 1999.

Abuhammour WM, Abdel-Haq NM, Asmar BI, Dajani AS:  Moraxella catarrhalis Bacteremia:  A 10-year Experience.  Southern Medical Journal 92(11):1071-4, 1999.

Abuhammour WM, Geraghty SR, Abdel-Haq NM, and Asmar BI:  Abdominal pain and eosinophilia in a ten year old male.  Your Diagnosis Please.  Ped Inf Dis J 18:6;556, 572, 1999.

Books, Chapters and Reviews

Asmar BI:  Yersinia enterocolitica. In: RudolphÕs Pediatrics, 21st edition, McGraw-Hill, New York (in press). 

Asmar BI:  Moraxella catarrhalis.  In: RudolphÕs Pediatrics, 21st edition,  McGraw-Hill, New York (in press). 

Abstracts, Letters to the Editor and Articles in Non-Referred Journals

Zhao J, Hao HN, Seay M, Abdel-Haq N, and Lyman W. Comparison of fetal human liver with cord blood hematopoietic stem cell BFU-E colony formation in response to human erythropoietin.  The American Pediatric Society and The Society for Pediatric Research, May 1-4, 1999, San Francisco, CA.  Pediatric Research, 45:4;154A, No. 900.

Hao HN, Abdel-Haq N, Zhao J, Lyman W.  Enhancement of HIV infection of human fetal liver and cord blood CD34+CD4-cells is mediated by upregulation of chemokine receptor expression on these cells.  The American Pediatric Society and The Society for Pediatric Research, May 1-4, 1999, San Francisco, CA.  Pediatric Research 45:4;162A, No. 834.

Bakhshi S, Hao HN, Zhao J, Abdel-Haq N, Lyman W.  FLT3/FLK2 receptor expression by fetal human liver and cord blood CD34+Cells and ligand-mediated colony formation. The American Pediatric Society and The Society for Pediatric Research, May 1-4, 1999, San Francisco, CA.  Pediatric Research, 45:4;143A, No. 834.

Hao HN, Abdel-Haq N, Zhao J, Lyman W.  HIV infection of astrocytes is necessary for cytokine expression. The American Pediatric Society and The Society for Pediatric Research, May 1-4, 1999, San Francisco, CA.  Pediatric Research, 45:4;162A, No. 947.

Abdel-Haq N, Hao HN, Lyman W.  Mechanisms controling CD40(receptor)-mediated neuroimmune pathways:  The role of cytokines, bacterial and viral antigens, and its cognate ligand. The American Pediatric Society and The Society for Pediatric Research, May 1-4, 1999, San Francisco, CA.  Pediatric Research, 45:4;8A, No. 36.

Abdel-Haq N, Hao HN, Lyman W.  Infection of fetal human astrocytes by M-tropic HIV is not inhibited by prostaglandin-mediated CCR5 downregulation. The American Pediatric Society and The Society for Pediatric Research. The American Pediatric Society and The Society for Pediatric Research, May 1-4, 1999, San Francisco, CA.  Pediatric Research, 45:4;155A, No. 901.

Hao HN, Thomas RA, Zhao J, Abdel-Haq N, and Lyman WD.  HIV passaged through microglia changes its chemokine receptor specificity.  18th Annual Meeting American Society for Virology, July 10-14, 1999, University of Massachusetts.  American Society for Virology, P8-2, 161. 

Hao HN, Thomas RA, Abdel-Haq N, Zhao J, Lotoczky GA, Grever WE, and Lyman WD.  Enhancement of neuronal toxicity by exgenous HIV-1 tat in mixed astrocytes/neuronal cultures.  1999 Annual Meeting Society of Neuroscience.  October 23-28, 1999, Miami Beach, Florida.

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