EDITOR IN CHIEF (2014)
Gary V. Doern
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City
EDITORS
Paul Bourbeau, Editor and Photo Quiz (2019) BD Diagnostics, Sparks, Md.
Carey-Ann D. Burnham, Editor (2019) Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.
Angela M. Caliendo (2017) Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Karen C. Carroll, Editor (2015) The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.
Daniel J. Diekema, Editor (2018) University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City
Bradley W. Fenwick, Editor (2019) University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Betty Ann Forbes, Editor and Biographical Feature (2019) Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond
Peter H. Gilligan, Editor and Point-Counterpoint (2017) UNC Healthcare, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Geoffrey A. Land, Editor (2015) The Methodist Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical College, Houston, Tex.
Nathan A. Ledeboer, Editor (2019) Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Michael J. Loeffelholz, Editor (2015) University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
Erik Munson, Editor (2018) Wheaton Franciscan Laboratory, Wauwatosa, Wis.
Andrew B. Onderdonk, Editor (2019) Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Robin Patel, Editor (2019) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Sandra S. Richter, Editor (2019) Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Yi-Wei Tang, Editor (2018) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.
David W. Warnock, Editor (2019) University of Manchester, U.K.
A list of potential conflicts of interest of Journal of Clinical Microbiology editors can be found at http://jcm.asm.org/misc/JCMEditorCOI.pdf.
Thomas E. Shenk, Chairman, Journals Board
Barbara M. Goldman, Director, Journals
Charles Brown, Production Editor
Manuel Cavazos, Assistant Production Editor
Jasmine Wallace, Editorial Coordinator
EDITORIAL BOARD
Jaber Aslanzadeh (2016)
Robyn Atkinson (2014)
Rosemary Barnes (2014)
Suzanne Barth (2016)
William Benjamin (2016)
Matthew Binnicker (2015)
Patrick Blackall (2016)
Andrea Boggild (2015)
Marc Bonten (2016)
Andrew Borman (2015)
John Branda (2016)
Stephen M. Brecher (2014)
Manfred Brigl (2014)
Barbara Brown-Elliott (2015)
Angela B. Brueggemann (2015)
Irene Burckhardt (2016)
Dominick Cavuoti (2015)
Robin Chamberland (2015)
Jeffrey E. Christensen (2014)
Richard B. Clark (2014)
Patricia Conville (2014)
Marc Couturier (2016)
David W. Craft (2015)
Manuel Cuenca-Estrella (2014)
Andre Dascal (2016)
Jose del Pozo (2016)
Varough M. Deyde (2015)
Christopher Doern (2014)
James Dunn (2016)
Mike Edmond (2014)
David Farrell (2014)
Daniel P. Fedorko (2016)
Ken J. Forbes (2015)
Karen Frank (2014)
Thomas Fritsche (2015)
Jonathan G. Frye (2015)
Guido Funke (2015)
Wendy Garrett (2014)
Richard V. Goering (2015)
Irene Gonzalez (2016)
Josep Guarro (2014)
Xiang-Yang Han (2015)
Kimberly Hanson (2016)
Susan Harrington (2014)
Randall Hayden (2014)
Kevin Hazen (2015)
Musa Hindiyeh (2014)
Marcia Hobbs (2014)
Rick Hodinka (2015)
Romney Humphries (2015)
Margareta Ieven (2016)
Peter C. Iwen (2016)
Michael Jacobs (2016)
Jonathan Juliano (2016)
Stefan Juretschko (2015)
George Kallstrom (2014)
James Karlowsky (2016)
Timothy Karnauchow (2015)
Karen Sue Kehl (2015)
James E. Kirby (2015)
Deanna L. Kiska (2014)
J. Stacey Klutts (2016)
Colleen Kraft (2015)
Katrien Lagrou (2015)
Marie Landry (2015)
Mark LaRocco (2014)
P. Rocco Lasala (2015)
Diane Leland (2015)
Shawn R. Lockhart (2015)
Yvonne Lue (2016)
Leonard W. Mayer (2014)
Yvette McCarter (2016)
Steve Meshnick (2016)
Wilbur Milhous (2016)
Melissa Miller (2016)
Danny Milner (2014)
Chris Minion (2015)
Vellore P. Mohan (2016)
Irving Nachamkin (2016)
Moon Nahm (2014)
Duane W. Newton (2015)
Frederick Nolte (2014)
Susan Novak-Weekley (2015)
Kerry O'Donnell (2015)
Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner (2016)
C. J. Papasian (2014)
Nicole Parrish (2014)
Melinda Pettigrew (2016)
Michael A. Pfaller (2015)
Gaby Pfyffer (2014)
David Pincus (2016)
Benjamin Pinsky (2016)
Melinda Poulter (2014)
Bobbi Pritt (2016)
Mangalathu Rajeevan (2016)
Rama Ramani (2014)
Kurt Reed (2014)
Scott Riddell (2016)
Stefan Riedel (2015)
Ryan Saffert (2015)
Andrew Sails (2014)
Sarah Satola (2015)
Michael Saubolle (2014)
Frank Scannapieco (2016)
Paul C. Schreckenberger (2015)
Rangaraj Selvarangan (2014)
Alberto Severini (2016)
Susan Sharp (2014)
Sanjay Shukla (2015)
Patricia Simner (2016)
James Snyder (2015)
Eric Spitzer (2015)
Elitza Theel (2016)
Kenneth S. Thomson (2015)
Richard (Tom) Thomson (2014)
Johan Van Eldere (2016)
Jordi Vila (2016)
Jan Vinje (2015)
Dmitriy Volokhov (2016)
Ken B. Waites (2015)
David F. Welch (2015)
Nancy Wengenack (2016)
Lars Westblade (2016)
Chris A. Whitehouse (2014)
Patricia P. Wilkins (2015)
Lihua Xiao (2016)
Adrian Zelazny (2014)
Marc Zervos (2015)
Jing-Ren Zhang (2014)
Sean Zhang (2014)
Zhi-Ming Zheng (2015)
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