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Demosthenes Pappagianis, M.D., Ph.D.

University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Rm 3145 Tupper Hall
Davis, California 95616
Tel: (530) 530-752-3391
Lab: (530) 752-7214/ 752-1757
FAX: (530) 752-8692
dpappagianis@ucdavis.edu

Education

University of California, Berkeley             A.B.          Bacteriology
University of California, Berkeley             M.A.          Bacteriology
University of California, Berkeley             Ph.D.         Bacteriology
Stanford School of Medicine                   M.D.


 Member of the Graduate Groups of Microbiology

Research Interests

Medical mycology and bacteriology; coccidioidomycosis: infections of humans, immunology-vaccines, chemotherapy, experimental pathology; epidemiology, candidiasis

Selected Publications

1998 Zimmermann, C.R., Johnson, S.M., Martens, G.W., White, A.G., Zimmer, B.L. and Pappagianis, D. Protection against lethal murine coccidioidomycosis by a soluble vaccine from spherules. Infection and Immunity, 66: 2342-2345.

1999 Pappagianis, D. Coccidioides immitis Antigen. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 180:243-244.

1999 Pappagianis, D. Coccidioidomycosis. In: "Textbook of Pediatrics" 16th Edition, R.E. Behrman, R.M. Kliegman, H.B. Jensen (Eds.) Saunders Co., Chapter 236, pp. 942-944. (Revised edition of #66)

2000 Johnson, S.M., K.M. Kerekes, C.R. Zimmermann, R.H. Williams, and D. Pappagianis. Identification and cloning of an aspartyl proteinase from Coccidioides immitis. GENE 241:213-222.

2000 Cairns, L.D. Blythe, A., Kao, D. Pappagianis, L. Kaufman, J., Kobayashi and R. Hajjeh. Outbreak of coccidioidomycosis in Washington State residents returning from Mexico. Clinical Infectious Diseases 30:61-64.

2000 Sorensen, K.N., R.A. Sobel, K.V. Clemons, D. Pappagianis, D.A. Stevens, and P.L. Williams. Comparison of fluconazole and itraconazole in a rabbit model of coccidioidal meningitis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 44:1512-1517.