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Internal Medicine / Infectious Diseases

Edgar Turner Overton, MD

Current Position
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases


Specialty Areas
Infectious Diseases

Patients Seen At
Storz Building
4570 Children's Place
St. Louis, MO  63110
314-747-1206
Fax:   314-454-5392
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Mailing Address
Washington University School of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
660 South Euclid
Campus Box 8051
St. Louis, MO  63110

Areas of Clinical Interest
Infectious diseases, HIV infection, viral hepatitis

Areas of Research Interest
Co-infection with HIV and hepatitis viruses, vaccination in HIV-infected patients, therapy for HIV infection

Board Certification
Infectious Diseases -- Certified
Internal Medicine -- Certified

Medical Education
B.A.: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee , 1992
Medical Degree: University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee , 1999
Residency: Internal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama , 2002
Fellowship: Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri , 2004
Hospital Affiliations
Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Major or Recent Publications/Awards

Honors and Awards

Special Citation for Poster Presentation, IDSA 2005

William E. Dismukes Outstanding Senior Resident, 2002

Outstanding Teaching Resident, 2001

Books and Book Chapters

Babcock HR, Overton ET, Kirmani N. Infection and Sepsis: An Overview for the Interventional Radiologist.In: Kadir S, ed. Interventional Radiology, 1st ed. New York: Thieme International, In press

Overton ET, Powderly WG. Infections in the Compromised Host. In: Schlaechter M, Engleberg N, et al, eds. Mechanisms of Microbial Disease, 5th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, In press

Peer Reviewed Articles

Grubb JR, Singhatiraj E, Mondy K, Powderly WG, Overton ET. Patterns of primary antiretroviral drug resistance in antiretroviral-naive HIV-1-infected individuals in a midwest university clinic. AIDS. 2006 Oct 24; 20(16):2115-6

Sungkanuparph S, Groger RK, Overton ET, Fraser VJ, Powderly WG. Persistent low-level viraemia and virological failure in HIV-1-infected patients treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy. HIV Med 2006 Oct; 7(7):437-41

Overton ET, Sungkanuparph S, Nurutdinova D, Powderly WG. Antiretroviral resistance among HIV-positive pregnant women who have antiretroviral experience from previous pregnancy. AIDS 2005; 19(13):1439-40

Overton ET, Sungkanuparph S, Powderly WG, Seyfried W, Groger RK, Aberg JA. Undetectable plasma HIV RNA load predicts success after hepatitis B vaccination in HIV-infected persons. Clin Infect Dis 2005; 41(7):1045-8

Sungkanuparph S, Overton ET, Seyfried W, Groger RK, Fraser VJ, Powderly WG. Intermittent episodes of detectable HIV viremia in patients receiving nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor-based or protease inhibitor-based highly active antiretroviral therapy regimens are equivalent in incidence and prognosis. Clin Infect Dis 2005; 41(9):1326-32


For more articles and abstracts, take this off-site link to the National Library of Medicine Pub Med page for Dr. Overton



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