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Lawrence Ash, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology

Work Phone Number: 310/825-5234

Work Email Address: larryash@ucla.edu

Education: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Zoonotic parasitic diseases; ecology, biology, pathology and systematics of nematodes in general and filariae, metastrongylids and ascarids in particular; epidemiology of parasitic infections.


Selected Publications:

Shafir SC, Wise ME, Sorvillo FJ, Ash LR Central Nervous System andEye Manifestations of Infection with Baylisascaris procyonis.. Current Infectious Disease Reports 2006; 8(4): 307-313.

Petithory JC, Ardoin F, Ash LR. Rapid and inexpensive method of diluting Giemsa stain for diagnosis of malaria and other infestations by blood parasites.. J Clin Microbiol 2005; 43(1): .

Wise ME, Sorvillo FJ, Shafir SC, Ash LR, Berlin OG Severe and fatal central nervous system disease in humans caused by Baylisascaris procyonis, the common roundworm of raccoons: a review of current literature. Microbes Infections 2005; 7(2): 317-323.

Sorvillo FJ, Portigal L, DeGiorgio C, Smith L, Waterman SH, Berlin GW, Ash LR. Cysticercosis-related deaths, California.. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004; 10(3): 465-9.

Sorvillo F, Ash LR, Berlin OG, Morse SA. Baylisascaris procyonis: an emerging helminthic zoonosis.. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002; 8(4): 355-9.
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Work Phone Number: 310/825-5234

Work Email Address: larryash@ucla.edu

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