Professor/Internal medicine/infectious diseases at University of Iowa Health Care
Internal Medicine
Dr. Louis V. Kirchhoff, MD
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Louis Kirchhoff practices Internal Medicine. He studied medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. Yale University School of Medicine is a top medical university. Yale University School of Medicine has a rank of 7 in research and a 57 in primary care He over the years received 13 awards: "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Tibbetts Award (to Goldfinch Diagnostics Inc.)", "Scholar", "Syntex Scholars Award", "Internal Medicine House Officer Research Award", "Harold Lamport Biomedical Research Prize", "NCI Pre-doctoral Summer Fellowship", "International Student Fellowship", "Tibbetts Award (to Goldfinch Diagnostics Inc)", "Scholar Award", "Established Investigatorship", "Scholars Award" and "NCI Pre-doctoral Fellowship". Louis Kirchhoff is a published physician as well. He has 81 publications published. The latest was: Use of a PCR assay for diagnosing African trypanosomiasis of the CNS: a case report.
Publications
- Re: "WHO evaluation of the serologic assays for Chagas disease".
- Comparison of the analytic sensitivities of a recombinant immunoblot assay and the radioimmune precipitation assay for the detection of antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi...
- WHO comparative evaluation of serologic assays for Chagas disease.
- Perspectives on Trypanosoma cruzi-induced heart disease (Chagas disease).
- Geographic variation in the sensitivity of recombinant antigen-based rapid tests for chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection.
- Evaluation and treatment of chagas disease in the United States: a systematic review.
- The emergence of chagas disease in the United States and Canada.
- Immunoblot assay using recombinant antigens as a supplemental test to confirm the presence of antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi.
- Evaluation of a prototype Trypanosoma cruzi antibody assay with recombinant antigens on a fully automated chemiluminescence analyzer for blood donor screening.
- Canine visceral leishmaniasis, United States and Canada, 2000-2003.
- Transfusion-associated Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) in Mexico: implications for transfusion medicine in the United States.
- Parasitic diseases of the heart.
- Changing Epidemiology and Approaches to Therapy for Chagas Disease.
- Epidemiology of American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease).
- [On grass dermatitis].
- [Treatment of acute barbiturate poisoning with special reference to analeptic control].
- Regionally limited or rare infections: prevention after hematopoietic cell transplantation.
- A practical guide to reality orientation: a treatment approach for confusion and disorientation.
- Chagas' disease.
- Recombinant Leishmania Hsp90 and Hsp70 are recognized by sera from visceral leishmaniasis patients but not Chagas' disease patients.
- Prevalence of antibody to Trypanosoma cruzi among blood donors in Los Angeles, California.
- Immunization and challenge of mice with insect-derived metacyclic trypomastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi.
- Molecular mimicry of a carbohydrate epitope on a major surface glycoprotein of Trypanosoma cruzi by using anti-idiotypic antibodies.
- Ubiquitin genes in trypanosomatidae.
- Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi by DNA amplification using the polymerase chain reaction.
- Is Trypanosoma cruzi a new threat to our blood supply?
- Trypanosoma cruzi expresses diverse repetitive protein antigens.
- A novel flagellar Ca2+-binding protein in trypanosomes.
- Molecular cloning of mtp70, a mitochondrial member of the hsp70 family.
- Feasibility and efficacy of in-home water chlorination in rural North-eastern Brazil.
- Increased specificity of serodiagnosis of Chagas' disease by detection of antibody to the 72- and 90-kilodalton glycoproteins of Trypanosoma cruzi.
- American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) in Central American immigrants.
- Trypanosoma cruzi exhibits inter- and intra-strain heterogeneity in molecular karyotype and chromosomal gene location.
- Treatment of Hodgkin's disease stages I and II with chemotherapy alone.
- Epidemiology and clinical significance of blood cultures positive for coagulase-negative staphylococcus.
- gp72, the 72 kilodalton glycoprotein, is the membrane acceptor site for C3 on Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes.
- Chagas' disease in Latin American immigrants.
- Strains and clones of Trypanosoma cruzi differ in their expression of a surface antigen identified by a monoclonal antibody.
- Cryptic epitope explains the failure of a monoclonal antibody to bind to certain isolates of Trypanosoma cruzi.
- A case-control study of Hodgkin's disease in Brazil II. Seroepidemiologic studies in cases and family members.
- Incubation in mice provides a signal for the differentiation of Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes to trypomastigotes.
- Prospective study of diarrheal illnesses in northeastern Brazil: patterns of disease, nutritional impact, etiologies, and risk factors.
- A case of schistosomiasis japonica: resolution of CAT-scan detected cerebral abnormalities without specific therapy.
- [Metaplastic and proliferative processes of the bladder mucosa in elderly patients (author''s transl)].
- A case-control study of Hodgkin's disease in Brazil. I. Epidemiogic aspects.
- [Perforation of an aortic aneurysm into the left portion of a doubled inferior vena cava].
- Repetitive protein antigens of Trypanosoma cruzi have diverse intracellular locations.
- Post-transcriptional elements regulating expression of mRNAs from the amastin/tuzin gene cluster of Trypanosoma cruzi.
- Trypanosoma cruzi: accumulation of polycistronic hsp70 RNAs during severe heat shock.
- Characterization of a Trypanosoma cruzi poly(A)-binding protein and its genes.
- A differentially expressed gene family encoding "amastin," a surface protein of Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes.
- Characterization of kinetoplast DNA minicircles in Trypanosoma rangeli.
- Chagas disease. American trypanosomiasis.
- Kinetic analysis of antigen-specific immune responses in resistant and susceptible mice during infection with Trypanosoma cruzi.
- Transcription and editing of cytochrome oxidase II RNAs in Trypanosoma cruzi.
- American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease)--a tropical disease now in the United States.
- Interruption of a Trypanosoma cruzi gene encoding a protein containing 14-amino acid repeats by targeted insertion of the neomycin phosphotransferase gene.
- Use of a questionnaire to identify potential blood donors at risk for infection with Trypanosoma cruzi.
- Trypanosoma cruzi infection in Walker hounds from Virginia.
- Trypanosoma cruzi: interruption of both alleles of a gene encoding a protein containing 14-amino-acid repeats by targeted insertion of NEOr and HYGr.
- Risk factors for Trypanosoma cruzi infection in California blood donors.
- Postmortem diagnosis of autochthonous acute chagasic myocarditis by polymerase chain reaction amplification of a species-specific DNA sequence of Trypanosoma cruzi.
- Comparison of PCR and microscopic methods for detecting Trypanosoma cruzi.
- American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease).
- Maxicircle genomic organization and editing of an ATPase subunit 6 RNA in Trypanosoma cruzi.
- Use of the polymerase chain reaction for detecting Trypanosoma cruzi in triatomine vectors.
- Asymptomatic perianal shedding of herpes simplex virus in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
- Specific antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi among blood donors in Los Angeles, California.
- Seroepidemiology of Trypanosoma cruzi, etiologic agent of Chagas' disease, in US blood donors.
- New perspectives in head and neck sonography by signal-enhanced color Doppler sonography.
- Use of a PCR assay for diagnosing African trypanosomiasis of the CNS: a case report.
- Induction of specific cell-mediated immunity in mice by oral immunization with Salmonella expressing Onchocerca volvulus glutathione S-transferase.
- Expression of a marker for intracellular Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes in extracellular spheromastigotes.
- Trypanosoma cruzi: suppression of tuzin gene expression by its 5'-UTR and spliced leader addition site.
- Amastin mRNA abundance in Trypanosoma cruzi is controlled by a 3'-untranslated region position-dependent cis-element and an untranslated region-binding protein.
- [Chronic Chagas disease--an echo from youth].
- Differential expression of GP63 genes in Trypanosoma cruzi.
- Evidence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection (Chagas' disease) among patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
- Prevalence of American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) among dogs in Oklahoma.
- Cell cycle expression of histone genes in Trypanosoma cruzi.
Schools
Yale University
University Mich Affil Hosps
National Institute Health
University Of Virginia Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
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- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
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- Medicare MCR
- Choice Plus POS
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- United Healthcare
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Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Tibbetts Award (to Goldfinch Diagnostics Inc.)
- Scholar
- Syntex Scholars Award
- Internal Medicine House Officer Research Award
- Harold Lamport Biomedical Research Prize
- NCI Pre-doctoral Summer Fellowship
- International Student Fellowship
- Tibbetts Award (to Goldfinch Diagnostics Inc)
- Scholar Award
- Established Investigatorship
- Scholars Award
- NCI Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Education
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center -
University of Virginia -
University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers -
Yale University School of Medicine -
University of California, San Diego -
Harvard University
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1174510283 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | KIRCHHOFF |
| First Name Of The Provider | LOUIS |
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