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Kenneth Heaton Wilson

Kenneth Heaton Wilson

Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Medicine, Infectious Diseases
wilso003@mc.duke.edu
315 Trent Dr Room 154, Box 102359, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

A simple HEPA filtering facepiece.

Journal Article Am J Infect Control · September 2021 Shortages of efficient filtering facepiece respirators leave the public vulnerable to transmission of infectious diseases in small particle aerosols. This study demonstrates that a high-filtration-efficiency facepiece capable of filtering out >95% of 0.05μ ... Full text Link to item Cite

Modified African Ngoma Healing Ceremony for Stress Reduction: A Pilot Study.

Journal Article J Altern Complement Med · October 2017 OBJECTIVE: Indigenous people's ceremonies using rhythm and dance have been used for countless generations throughout the world for healing, conflict resolution, social bonding, and spiritual experience. A previous study reported that a ceremony based on th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Therapeutic Potential of a Drum and Dance Ceremony Based on the African Ngoma Tradition.

Journal Article J Altern Complement Med · August 2015 OBJECTIVE: Ngoma ceremonies are used throughout Central and South Africa to help people address "difficult issues," including medical illness. They are examples of ceremonies that use strong rhythms and dance for this purpose in indigenous cultures through ... Full text Link to item Cite

Whipple disease research accelerates.

Journal Article J Infect Dis · July 1, 2011 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Medicine's missing dimension.

Journal Article Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc · 2010 Featured Publication In medicine we tend to restrict practice to using a purely intellectual understanding grounded in science to conceptualize patients and their illnesses. This approach is radically different from the experientially rich healing practices found throughout th ... Link to item Cite

A comparison of the effectiveness of lipid-lowering therapy between HIV- and non-HIV-infected subjects with hyperlipidaemia.

Journal Article Int J STD AIDS · December 2007 This retrospective cohort study conducted at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center evaluated the effectiveness and safety of lipid-lowering therapy (LLT) in a HIV-infected population as compared with a general population with hyperlipidaemia. Fifty-th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Association between pharmacy medication refill-based adherence rates and cd4 count and viral-load responses: A retrospective analysis in treatment-experienced adults with HIV.

Journal Article Clin Ther · April 2007 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: Current guidelines and most contemporary statements in the literature indicate that, like other medical conditions, HIV infection requires exceptionally high adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for successful treatment. OB ... Full text Link to item Cite

Comparison of fecal biota from specific pathogen free and feral mice.

Journal Article Anaerobe · 2006 Featured Publication Specific pathogen free (SPF) rodents are derived from germfree animals that are colonized with Schaedler's flora, a cocktail of eight bacterial strains isolated from the natural biota of mice. During successive generations SPF animals acquire a complex bio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ribosomal DNA sequence analysis of mucosa-associated bacteria in Crohn's disease.

Journal Article Inflamm Bowel Dis · November 2004 BACKGROUND: Enteric bacteria are implicated in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD); however, no specific causative organisms have been identified. AIMS: This study was undertaken to correlate disease activity with changes in intestinal biota in patien ... Full text Link to item Cite

Probiotics and prebiotics

Journal Article ASM NEWS · September 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

Benefits and harms of doxycycline treatment for Gulf War veterans' illnesses: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Journal Article Ann Intern Med · July 20, 2004 BACKGROUND: It has been hypothesized that certain Mycoplasma species may cause Gulf War veterans' illnesses (GWVIs), chronic diseases characterized by pain, fatigue, and cognitive symptoms, and that affected patients may benefit from doxycycline treatment. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin.

Journal Article Clin Infect Dis · April 15, 2004 Clinical management of infective endocarditis (IE) is expected to become more difficult with the emergence of Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin (SARV) in the United States and worldwide. We report the strain characterization a ... Full text Link to item Cite

High-density microarray of small-subunit ribosomal DNA probes.

Journal Article Appl Environ Microbiol · May 2002 Ribosomal DNA sequence analysis, originally conceived as a way to provide a universal phylogeny for life forms, has proven useful in many areas of biological research. Some of the most promising applications of this approach are presently limited by the ra ... Full text Link to item Cite

Differential induction of colitis and gastritis in HLA-B27 transgenic rats selectively colonized with Bacteroides vulgatus or Escherichia coli.

Journal Article Infect Immun · June 1999 Resident bacteria play an important role in initiating and perpetuating gastrointestinal inflammation. We previously demonstrated that six commensal bacteria including Bacteroides vulgatus caused more aggressive colitis and gastritis in HLA-B27 transgenic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Varying cecal bacterial loads influences colitis and gastritis in HLA-B27 transgenic rats.

Journal Article Gastroenterology · February 1999 BACKGROUND & AIMS: Recent data support an important role of resident luminal bacteria in experimental colitis. We determined how altered cecal bacterial loads influence colitis and gastritis. METHODS: A cecal self-filling blind loop (SFBL) was created or t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Alpha1-adrenergic receptors in human spinal cord: specific localized expression of mRNA encoding alpha1-adrenergic receptor subtypes at four distinct levels.

Journal Article Brain Res Mol Brain Res · January 8, 1999 alpha1-Adrenergic receptors (alpha1ARs) are important in lower urinary tract syndromes such as benign prostatic hypertrophy and bladder irritability. Spinal cord alpha1ARs have been postulated to play a role in modulating these diseases, yet alpha1AR subty ... Full text Link to item Cite

Bartonella clarridgeiae, a newly recognized zoonotic pathogen causing inoculation papules, fever, and lymphadenopathy (cat scratch disease).

Journal Article J Clin Microbiol · July 1997 Shortly after adopting a 6-week-old cat, a veterinarian was bitten on the left index finger. Within 3 weeks, he developed headache, fever, and left axillary lymphadenopathy. Initial blood cultures from the cat and veterinarian were sterile. Repeat cultures ... Full text Link to item Cite

Characterization of the variable-number tandem repeats in vrrA from different Bacillus anthracis isolates.

Journal Article Appl Environ Microbiol · April 1997 PCR analysis of 198 Bacillus anthracis isolates revealed a variable region of DNA sequence differing in length among the isolates. Five polymorphisms differed by the presence of two to six copies of the 12-bp tandem repeat 5'-CAATATCAACAA-3'. This variable ... Full text Link to item Cite