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D. Peter Drotman, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Emerging Infectious Diseases. Disclosure: D. Peter Drotman, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Charles P. Vega, MD, Associate Professor; Residency Director, Department of Family Medicine, University of California, Irvine. Disclosure: Charles P. Vega, MD, has disclosed that he has served as an advisor or consultant to Novartis, Inc.
Stephanie Yee-Guardino, DO, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cleveland
Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Stephanie
Yee-Guardino, DO, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Kate Gowans, MD, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology,
Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Kate
Gowans, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Belinda Yen-Lieberman, PhD, Laboratory Medicine, Lerner Research Institute,
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Belinda Yen-Lieberman, PhD,
has disclosed that she has received reagents at no charge from ARTUS
Diagnostics.
Pamela Berk, BS, Department of Molecular Genetics, Lerner Research
Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Pamela Berk, BS,
has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Debra Kohn, BS, MT, Laboratory Medicine, Lerner Research Institute,
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Debra Kohn, BS, MT, has
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Fu-Zhang Wang, PhD, Department of Molecular Genetics, Lerner Research,
Institute Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Fu-Zhang Wang, PhD,
has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD,
MPH, Section of Pediatric Infectious
Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio; Departments of
Infectious Diseases, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland,
Ohio. Disclosure: Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH, has disclosed no relevant
financial relationships.
Camille Sabella, MD, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cleveland
Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio; Departments of Infectious
Diseases, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure:
Camille Sabella, MD, has disclosed that she has received grants from Merck,
Inc. and Sanofi Pasteur.
Sarah Worley, MS, Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research
Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Sarah Worley, MS, has
disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Philip E. Pellett, PhD, Departments of Infectious Diseases, Department of
Molecular Genetics, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland,
Ohio. Disclosure: Philip E. Pellett, PhD, has disclosed that he has received
royalties from Chemicon International.
Johanna Goldfarb, MD, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children's
Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio; Departments of Infectious Diseases, Lerner Research
Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Johanna Goldfarb, MD,
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