Paul M. Lantos, MD

• Medicine / General Internal Medicine
• Hospital Medicine / Duke University Hospital
• Pediatrics / Infectious Diseases

Address:
DUMC 100800
Durham, NC 27704

Office Telephone:
919-681-8263

Fax Telephone:
919-668-5394

• MD, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 2000

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

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

Clinical Interests:
Hospital medicine, consultative general internal medicine for inpatients, medical education, tropical medicine and international health, malaria and other parasitic diseases, tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease, mosquito-borne diseases such as encephalitis

Research Interests:
Epidemiology of tick-borne and mosquito-borne diseases
Clinical practice guidelines in infectious diseases

Current Projects and Activities:
IDSA Lyme Disease Guidelines Review Panel
IDSA Standards and Practice Guidelines Committee
Duke Antibiotic Evaluation Team

Clinical Interests:
Tick-borne and mosquito-borne diseases
Parasitology
Travel Medicine
Adolescent HIV

Representative Publications:
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

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