Advisers & FriendsJoseph Silva, Jr., M.D.
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Clinical/Research InterestsJoseph Silva Jr. is an expert in infectious diseases and has clinical interests in the areas of general internal medicine, immune deficiency and antibiotic-associated colitis. He served as chair of Internal Medicine for 14 years. Silva's research interests include using polymerase chain reaction and oligonucleotide probes to identify Clostridium-difficile organisms in stools of patients with antibiotic-associated colitis, a major cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea and morbid colitis. |
Title: |
Professor Dean Emeritus of School of Medicine |
Specialty: |
Infectious Diseases |
Center/Program Affiliation: |
General Clinical Research Center |
Address: |
UC Davis Medical Group - Sacramento (J Street) 2825 J St. Sacramento, CA 95816 |
Phone: |
(916) 734-7131 |
Education: |
Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois M.D. 1966 |
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Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey B.A. 1962 |
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Internships: |
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland 1966-67 |
Residency: |
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland 1967-69 |
Fellowships: |
University of Michigan Medical Center Ann Arbor, Michigan 1969-70 |
Board Certifications: |
American Board of Internal Medicine, 1972 |
Professional Memberships: |
Alpha Omega Alpha American and California Medical Association American Association for the Advancement of Science American College of Physicians American Federation for Clinical Research American Society of Internal Medicine American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene California Academy of Medicine Central Society for Clinical Research |
Select Recent Publications: |
Cohen SH, Tang YJ, Hansen B, Silva J. Recurrence of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea (CDAD) due to a toxin B deficient mutant. Clinical Infectious Diseases 1998;26:410-412. Shetab R, Cohen SH, Prindiville T, Tang YJ, Cantrell M, Rahmani D, Silva J. Detection of Bacteroides fragilis Enterotoxin Gene by PCR. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1998;36:1729-1732. Brazier JS, Mulligan ME, Delmee M, Tabaqchili S, and the International Clostridium difficile Study Group (Silva J, et al.): Preliminary findings of the international typing study on Clostridium difficile. Clinical Infectious Diseases 1997;25(Suppl 2):S199-201. Meisel-Mikolajczyk F, Martirosian G, Tang YJ, Silva J . Genotyping of Clostridium difficile isolates from a Hospital in Warsaw: A Preliminary Study. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 1997;2:88-90. Liu Y, Lu X, Tang YJ, Lam K, Silva J, Leung J. Polymerase Chain Reaction for Identification and Typing of Clostridium difficile isolates from Chinese patients. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 1997;2:85-87. |
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