Editorial Board
Editor
Alexander Tomasz, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Laboratory of Microbiology
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Editorial Board
Frank M. Aarestrup, PhD, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fernando Alcaide, MD, PhD, Barcelona, Spain
Michel Arthur, PhD, Orsay, France
Cécile M. Bébéar, MD, PhD, Bordeaux, France
Brigitte Berger-Bächi, PhD, Zürich, Switzerland
Markus Bischoff, PhD, Homburg/Saar, Germany
Ivo G. Boneca, PhD, Paris, France
Robert Bonomo, MD, Cleveland, Ohio
John M. Boyce, MD, New Haven, CT
Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt, PhD, Wuppertal, Germany
Karen Bush, PhD, Bloomington, IN
Patrick Butaye, DVM, PhD, Merelbeke, Belgium
Ed T. Buurman, PhD, Waltham, MA
Emmanuelle Cambau, MD, PhD, Paris, France
Jose Campos, MD, PhD, Madrid, Spain
Rafael Cantón, MD, Madrid, Spain
Yehuda Carmeli, MD, MPH, Tel Aviv, Israel
Mariana Castanheira, PhD, North Liberty, IA
Vincent Cattoir, PhD, Caen, France
Henry F. Chambers, MD, San Francisco, CA
Barry D. Cookson, MD, PhD, London, United Kingdom
Patrice Courvalin, MD, Paris, France
Boudewijn de Jonge, PhD, Waltham, MA
Adela González de la Campa, PhD, Madrid, Spain
Herminia de Lencastre, PhD, New York, NY
Rosa del Campo, PhD, MD, Madrid, Spain
Lisa L. Dever, MD, Newark, NJ
Daniel J. Diekema, MD, Iowa City, IA
M. Angeles Domínguez, MD, PhD, Barcelona, Spain
Thomas J. Dougherty, PhD, Groton, CT
Cameron Douglas, PhD, Rahway, NJ
Christopher G. Dowson, PhD, Coventry, United Kingdom
Michael Edmond, MD, MPH, MPA, Richmond, VA
Karl Ekdahl, MD, PhD, Stockholm, Sweden
Mark C. Enright, PhD, London, United Kingdom
Jerome Etienne, MD, Lyon, France
Seamus Fanning, PhD, Dublin, Ireland
Roberta Fontana, MD, Verona, Italy
Tim J. Foster, PhD, Dublin, Ireland
Vance G. Fowler, Jr., MD, MHS, Durham, NC
Gary French, BSc, MD, FRCPath, DipHIC, London, United Kingdom
Ernesto Garcia, PhD, Madrid, Spain
James Gomez, PhD, Cambridge, MA
Gabriel O. Gutkind, PhD, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Laurent Gutmann, MD, Paris, France
Regine Hakenbeck, PhD, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Robert E. W. Hancock, OC, FRSC, Vancouver, Canada
Henrik Hasman, PhD, Copenhagen, Denmark
Peter Heisig, PhD, Hamburg, Germany
Katie L. Hopkins, PhD, London, United Kingdom
George A. Jacoby, Jr., MD, Burlington, MA
Stephen G. Jenkins, PhD, New York, NY
Lars B. Jensen, MSc, PhD, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ronald N. Jones, MD, North Liberty, IA
Winfried V. Kern, MD, Freiburg, Germany
Ken Kikuchi, MD, PhD, Tokyo, Japan
Keith P. Klugman, MD, PhD, Atlanta, GA
Barry N. Kreiswirth, PhD, Newark, NJ
Karl G. Kristinsson, MD, PhD, FRCPath, Reykjavik, Iceland
Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE, Philadelphia, PA
Marcelle Layton, MD, New York, NY
Roland Leclercq, MD, PhD, Caen, France
Stuart B. Levy, MD, Boston, MA
Josefina Liñares, MD, PhD, Barcelona, Spain
Olga Lomovskaya, PhD, San Diego, CA
Rubens Lopez, PhD, Madrid, Spain
Frank Lowy, MD, New York, NY
Gregory S. May, PhD, Houston, TX
Edwin David McIntosh, MD, PhD, London, United Kingdom
John McKinney, PhD, Lausanne, Switzerland
John Mekalanos, PhD, Boston, MA
Emilia Mellado, PhD, Madrid, Spain
José Melo-Cristino, MD, PhD, Lisbon, Portugal
Rodrigo E. Mendes, PhD, North Liberty, IA
Alita A. Miller, PhD, Groton, CT
Scott D. Mills, PhD, Waltham, MA
Shahriar Mobashery, PhD, Notre Dame, IN
Marisa Montecalvo, MD, Valhalla, NY
Philippe Moreillon, MD, PhD, Lausanne, Switzerland
Johan W. Mouton, MD, PhD, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
John P. Mueller, PhD, Groton, CT
Barbara E. Murray, MD, Houston, TX
Thalia I. Nicas, PhD, Indianapolis, IN
Marie-Hélène Nicolas-Chanoine, MD, PhD, Clichy, France
Hiroshi Nikaido, PhD, Berkeley, CA
Carl Erik Nord, MD, PhD, Huddinge, Sweden
Patrice Nordmann, MD, PhD, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Birgitta Henriques Normark, MD, PhD, Solna, Sweden
Staffan J. Normark, PhD, Stockholm, Sweden
Knut Ohlsen, PhD, Wuerzburg, Germany
Timothy Palzkill, PhD, Houston, TX
Thomas R. Parr Jr., PhD, Parsippany, NJ
Alvaro Pascual, PhD, Seville, Spain
James C. Paton, PhD, Adelaide, Australia
Luísa Vieira Peixe, PhD, Porto, Portugal
Jose L. Perez, MD, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Bruno Périchon, PhD, Paris, France
David S. Perlin, PhD, Newark, NJ
Vincent Perreten, Dr sc techn, Berne, Switzerland
Andreas Peschel, PhD, Tubingen, Germany
Georg Peters, MD, Münster, Germany
Marie-Cécile Ploy, PhD, Limoges, France
Laurent Poirel, PhD, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Steven J. Projan, PhD, Cambridge, MA
Michael J. Pucci, PhD, New Haven, CT
Claudine Quentin-Noury, PhD, Bordeaux, France
Mario Ramirez, PhD, Lisbon, Portugal
Josette Raymond, MD, Paris, France
Richard B. Roberts, MD, New York, NY
Marilyn C. Roberts, PhD, Seattle, WA
Gian Maria Rossolini, MD, Sienna, Italy
Peter Sander, PhD, Zürich, Switzerland
Gian Carlo Schito, MD, Genoa, Italy
Stefan Schwarz, DVM, PhD, Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany
Harald Seifert, MD, Cologne, Germany
Robert Skov, MD, Copenhagen, Denmark
Francisco Soriano, MD, PhD, Madrid, Spain
Brian G. Spratt, PhD, London, United Kingdom
Neal H. Steigbigel, MD, Bronx, NY
Jacob Strahilevitz, MD, Jerusalem, Israel
Marc Struelens, MD, PhD, Brussels, Belgium
Marianne Sunde, PhD, Oslo, Norway
Arnfinn Sundsfjord, MD, PhD, Tromsø, Norway
Joyce A. Sutcliffe, PhD, Groton, CT
Fred C. Tenover, PhD, Atlanta, GA
David S. Thaler, PhD, New York, NY
Kenneth S. Thomson, PhD, Omaha, NE
E. John Threlfall, BSc, PhD, London, United Kingdom
Athanassios Tsakris, MD, PhD, Athens, Greece
Paul M. Tulkens, MD, PhD, Brussels, Belgium
Alex Van Belkum, PhD, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Waldemar Vollmer, PhD, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Jaana Vuopio-Varkila, MD, PhD, Helsinki, Finland
Christoph Wenisch, MD, Vienna, Austria
Richard P. Wenzel, MD, MSc, Richmond, VA
Thomas A. Wichelhaus, MD, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Wolfgang Witte, PhD, Wernigerode, Germany
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