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Peter Densen, MD

Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases

Current Positions

  • Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases

Education

  • MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Resident, Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Fellow, Infectious Diseases, University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia

Selected Publications

  • Densen, P., Ackermann, L., Saucedo, L., Figueroa, J. E., Si, Z. H. & Stoltzfus, C. M. (2020). A Point Mutation Creating a 3' Splice Site in C8A Is a Predominant Cause of C8α-γ Deficiency in African Americans. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 205 (6) 1535-1539. PMCID: PMC7484158.
  • Park, D., Brown, M. L., Densen, P., Myers, L. K. & Lew, D. B. (2013). A 9-year-old boy with chronic urticaria and progressive spondyloarthritis. Allergy and asthma proceedings : the official journal of regional and state allergy societies 34 (1) 103-7. PMID: 23406943.
  • Ornstein, B. W., Atkinson, J. P. & Densen, P. (2012). The complement system in pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus, atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, and complocentric membranoglomerulopathies. Current opinion in rheumatology 24 (5) 522-9. PMID: 22810363.
  • Densen, P. (2011). Challenges and opportunities facing medical education. Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association 122 48-58. PMCID: PMC3116346.
  • Ferguson, K., Cooper, C., Asprey, D. & Densen, P. (2010). University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 85 (9 Suppl) S228-32. PMID: 20736555.
  • Densen, P. (2009). Complement. In Bennett, J., Douglas, G. & Mandell, G. L. (Eds.) Principles and Practice of Infectious Disease. (7), pp. 77-98. PMCID: Churchill Livingstone.
  • Densen, P. (2005). Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and hemolytic uremic syndrome: emerging insights for vascular integrity. Current infectious disease reports 7 (5) 319-21. PMID: 16107226.
  • Densen, P. (2004). Complement. In Bennett, J., Douglas, G. & Mandell, G. L. (Eds.) Principles and Practice of Infectious Disease. (6), pp. 77-98. PMCID: Churchill Livingstone.
  • Alper, C. A., Xu, J., Cosmopoulos, K., Dolinski, B., Stein, R., Uko, G., Larsen, C. E., Dubey, D. P., Densen, P., Truedsson, L., Sturfelt, G. & Sjoholm, A. G. (2003). Immunoglobulin deficiencies and susceptibility to infection among homozygotes and heterozygotes for C2 deficiency. Journal of clinical immunology 23 (4) 297-305. PMID: 12959222.
  • Zaleski, A., Scheffler, N. K., Densen, P., Lee, F. K., Campagnari, A. A., Gibson, B. W. & Apicella, M. A. (2000). Lipooligosaccharide P(k) (Galalpha1-4Galbeta1-4Glc) epitope of moraxella catarrhalis is a factor in resistance to bactericidal activity mediated by normal human serum. Infection and immunity 68 (9) 5261-8. PMCID: PMC101787.

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