Professor of Pediatrics, Wayne State University
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Dr. Basim I. Asmar, MD
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Basim Asmar is an expert in the field of Pediatric Infectious Disease. He studied medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Wayne State University School of Medicine has a rank of 63 in research and a 85 in primary care He received 2 awards: "Regional Top Doctor" and "Super Doctor". Basim Asmar has written publications. He has 78 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Picture of the month. Petechial eruption with parvovirus B19 infection.'
Publications
- Possible Impact of Yearly Childhood Vaccination With Trivalent Inactivated Influenza Vaccine (TIV) on the Immune Response to the Pandemic Strain H1N1.
- Pentavalent Rotavirus Vaccine in Infants with Surgical Gastrointestinal Disease: A Pilot Study.
- How Many Sources Should Be Cultured for the Diagnosis of a Blood Stream Infection in Children with Cancer?
- Predictive Factors for Blood Stream Infections in Children with Cancer.
- Detection of respiratory coinfections in pediatric patients using a small volume polymerase chain reaction array respiratory panel: More evidence for combined droplet ...
- A randomized placebo-controlled trial of massage therapy on the immune system of preterm infants.
- Staphylococcus epidermidis Urinary Tract Infection in an Infant.
- Retropharyngeal Abscess in Children: The Rising incidence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- An Unexpected Source of False Positive Bordetella pertussis PCR: Aerosolized Vaccine.
- Emergence of human rotavirus genotype G9 in metropolitan Detroit between 2007 and 2009.
- An outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection in a neonatal intensive care unit: investigation and control.
- Infliximab treatment of intravenous immunoglobulin-resistant Kawasaki disease.
- Multidrug-resistant viridans streptococcus (MDRVS) osteomyelitis of the mandible successfully treated with moxifloxacin.
- Lumboperitonial shunt infection due to Chryseobacterium indologenes.
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a cause of community-acquired pneumonia.
- Use of complementary and alternative medicine by parents of children with HIV infection and asthma and well children.
- Effect of using 2 throat swabs vs 1 throat swab on detection of group A streptococcus by a rapid antigen detection test.
- Severe cytomegalovirus enterocolitis in an immunocompetent infant.
- Herpes simplex virus type 1 esophagitis in an immunocompetent adolescent.
- Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium endocarditis in a premature infant successfully treated with linezolid.
- Increased prevalence of G1P[4] genotype among children with rotavirus-associated gastroenteritis in metropolitan Detroit.
- Staphylococcal acalculous cholecystitis in a child.
- Severe hepatitis associated with oxacillin therapy.
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in adults--a surgical review.
- Safety and immunogenicity of acellular pertussis vaccine combined with diphtheria and tetanus toxoids in 17- to 24-month-old children.
- Picture of the month. Petechial eruption with parvovirus B19 infection.
- Nasopharyngeal colonization with Streptococcus pneumoniae in children receiving trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis.
- Ureaplasma urealyticum arthritis and bacteremia in agammaglobulinemia.
- Moraxella catarrhalis bacteremia and preseptal cellulitis.
- Comparison of cefpodoxime proxetil and cefixime in the treatment of acute otitis media in infants and children. Otitis Study Group.
- Increasing Enterobacter bacteremia in pediatric patients.
- Moraxella catarrhalis ventriculitis in a child with hydrocephalus and an external ventricular drain.
- Pneumococcal pneumonia with pneumatocele formation.
- Violaceous discoloration in pneumococcal cellulitis.
- Hemophilus influenzae type b pneumonia in 43 children.
- Systemic Haemophilus influenzae disease: an overview.
- Hematologic abnormalities after oral trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole therapy in children.
- Concurrent pneumococcal disease in two siblings.
- Ampicillin-chloramphenicol interaction against enteric Gram-negative organisms.
- Pharmacokinetics of intravenously administered piperacillin in preadolescent children.
- Cefotaxime diffusion into cerebrospinal fluid of children with meningitis.
- Neonatal retropharyngeal cellulitis due to group B streptococcus.
- Escherichia coli cellulitis in children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome.
- Antagonistic effect of chloramphenicol in combination with cefotaxime or ceftriaxone.
- Bacteriology of retropharyngeal abscess in children.
- Septic arthritis due to Nocardia asteroides.
- Immunogenicity and reactogenicity of Haemophilus influenzae type b-meningococcus group B outer membrane protein conjugate vaccine in children 2-60 months of age.
- Pseudomonas cepacia bacteremia in children with sickle cell hemoglobinopathies.
- Osteomyelitis in the neonate.
- Polio vaccine virus-associated meningoencephalitis in an infant with transient hypogammaglobulinemia.
- Anti-herpes viruses agents.
- Antiretroviral drugs in pediatrics.
- Antiviral therapy: respiratory infections, chronic hepatitis.
- Prevalence of penicillin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae in nasopharyngeal cultures from patients with sickle cell disease.
- Yersinia enterocolitica infection in children.
- Moraxella catarrhalis bacteremia: a 10-year experience.
- Photo quiz. Retropharyngeal abscess secondary to cervical tuberculous osteomyelitis.
- A sixteen-year-old male youth with fever, dysphagia and weight loss.
- Abdominal pain and eosinophilia in a ten-year-old boy.
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitalized children: correlation of molecular analysis with clinical presentation and antibiotic susceptibility...
- Disseminated cat scratch disease with vertebral osteomyelitis and epidural abscess.
- Kawasaki disease hospitalizations in a predominantly African-American population.
- Picture of the month. Tonsillar actinomycosis.
- New antiretroviral drugs in clinical use.
- Antibiotics for treatment of resistant gram-positive coccal infections.
- New antiviral agents.
- Mycoplasma hominis scalp abscess in the newborn.
- Antibacterial resistance.
- Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV6) infection.
- Advances in prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
- Antibiotic susceptibilities of Yersinia enterocolitica recovered from children over a 12-year period.
- Advances in prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission: the international perspectives.
- Novel swine--origin influenza A: the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus.
- Nosocomial infections and multidrug-resistant bacterial organisms in the pediatric intensive care unit.
- Asaia lannaensis bloodstream infection in a child with cancer and bone marrow transplantation.
- Clostridial liver abscess following blunt abdominal trauma: case report and review of the literature.
- Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in very low-birth-weight infants after administration of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Infectious Disease Medicine
- Pediatric Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- Super Doctor
Education
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Wayne State University School of Medicine -
University of Texas Health Science Center -
American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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DMC - Children's Hospital of Michigan
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