Physicians

Departments / Divisions

• Medicine / Medicine - Hospitalists
• Pediatrics / Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases

Address
DUMC 100800
Durham, NC 27704

Appointment Telephone
919-684-6335

Office Telephone
919-681-8263

Fax Telephone
919-668-5394

Training

• MD, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 2000

Residency

• Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 2004

Fellowship

• Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School (Massachusetts), 2007

Other Training

• Certificate of Knowledge in Travel Medicine, 2009

Clinical Interests
Tick- and mosquito-borne diseases, including Lyme disease and malaria; tropical and travel medicine; parasitology; pediatric and adolescent HIV

Research Interests
I am interested in the epidemiology of vector-borne infections, particularly those borne by mosquitos and ticks.

Currently my primary research endeavor is the characterization of Lyme disease transmission in North Carolina, a region that has been traditionally regarded as non-endemic for Lyme disease.  Lyme disease is by far the most common vector-borne infection in the United States, with tens of thousands of persons infected annually, bu the disease remains extremely rare in North Carolina despite our close proximity to areas with heavy transmission.  I have several ongoing projects to help define appropriate practices for Lyme disease in areas where transmission is low: a modeling study to determine the risks vs benefits of treating all erythema migrans-like rashes as if they are Lyme disease in areas where the rash is more likely to be STARI (an unrelated tick-associated skin condition); characterization of Lyme disease testing practices in the Duke University Health System; and evaluation of whether patient or physician concern has been the primary driver of Lyme disease testing.  I am also collaborating with colleagues at other institutions to develop spatial models of variables that best predict human risk of Lyme disease in areas where the disease may emerge in the future.

Separately, I am participating in the implementation and analysis of a malaria control intervention in Tanzania, as well as analysis of cobenefits for filariasis transmission.

Industry Relationships and Collaborations (What's this?)

This physician has no reported relationships with industry.

Representative Publications
Lantos P and Krause PJ: Lyme disease coinfections: Anaplasmosis and Babesiosis. In Sood S (ed). Lyme Borreliosis in Europe and North America. Wiley & Sons (2011)

Lantos PM, Chronic Lyme disease: the controversies and the science. Expert Reviews in Anti-Infective Therapy, 9(7): 787-797, 2011. (2011)

Breitschwerdt EB, Maggi RG, Lantos PM, Woods CW, Hegarty BC, Bradley JM. Bartonella vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii and Bartonella henselae bacteremia in a father and daughter with neurological disease. Parasit Vectors. 2010;3(1):29. (2010) Abstract

Lantos PM, Charini WA, Medoff G, Moro MH, Mushatt DM, Parsonnet J, Sanders JW, Baker CJ. Final Report of the Lyme Disease Review Panel of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis. 2010 May 26. (2010) Abstract

Lantos PM, Ahouidi AD, Bei AK, Jennings CV, Sarr O, Ndir O, Wirth DF, Mboup S, Duraisingh MT. Erythrocyte invasion profiles are associated with a common invasion ligand polymorphism in Senegalese isolates of Plasmodium falciparum.  Parasitology.  2009 Jan;136(1):1-9. (2009) Abstract

Koutros S, Holford TR, Hahn T, Lantos PM, McCarthy PL Jr, Risch HA, Swede H. Excess diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma during spring in the USA. Leuk Lymphoma. 2007 Feb;48(2):357-66. (2007) Abstract

Krause PJ, Daily J, Telford SR, Vannier E, Lantos P, Spielman A. Shared features in the pathobiology of babesiosis and malaria.  Trends Parasitol.  2007 Dec;23(12):605-10. (2007) Abstract

Lantos, Paul M. Whispers from the Third Generation, in: Takakuwa K, ed. What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. (2004)

Lantos P and Krause PJ. Babesiosis. In DJ Richardson and PJ Krause (eds.), North American Parasitic Zoonoses. Norwell, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 151-164, 2003. (2003)

Lantos P, Krause PJ. Ehrlichiosis in children. Semin Pediatr Infect Dis. 2002 Oct;13(4):249-56. (2002) Abstract

Lantos PM, Krause PJ. Babesiosis: similar to malaria but different. Pediatr Ann. 2002 Mar;31(3):192-7. (2002) Abstract