Microbiology Graduate Group Faculty Profile
 
Demosthenes Pappagianis
Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Microbiology and Immunology (School of Medicine)
3145 Med Sci 1A
Office 752-3391
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Degrees:
1962 - MD - Stanford University School of Medicine -
1955 - PhD - University of California, Berkeley - Bacteriology
1951 - MA - University of California, Berkeley - Bacteriology
1949 - BA - University of California, Berkeley - Bacteriology

Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties:
Microbiology

Research Interests:
Immunology, experimental pathology, and experimental therapy in fungal diseases of humans and other species with emphasis on coccidioidomycosis.

Publications:
Pappagianis D and the Valley Fever Vaccine Study Group. 1993. Evaluation of the protective efficacy of the killed Coccidioides immitis spherule vaccine in humans. American Review of Respiratory Disease. 148:656-660

Galgiani J, T Peng, ML Lewis, GA Cloud, D Pappagianis and the NIAID Mycoses Study Group. 1996. Cerebrospinal fluid antibodies detected by ELISA against a 33-kDa antigen from spherules of Coccidioides immitis in patients with coccidioidal meningitis

Pappagianis D. 1995. Coccidioidomycosis. In: Textbook of Pediatrics, 15th Edition. Saunders Co:946-948