List of contributors

Gulzhan Abuova
Department of Infectious Diseases,
South-Kazakhstan State Pharmaceutical Academy,
Shymkent, Kazakhstan

Seif S. Al-Abri
Directorate General for Communicable Disease Surveillance,
Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman

Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami
Epidemiological Surveillance Section, Division of Infectious Diseases,
Hospital of Clinics, University of Campinas and Department of Public Health,
School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas,
Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq
Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Patrick Ayeh-Kumi
School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences,
University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Frank J. Bia
Department of Internal Medicine,
Infectious Disease Section, Yale School of Medicine,
New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Barbra M. Blair
Division of Infectious Diseases,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA; Harvard Medical School,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Lucille Blumberg
Epidemiology and Outbreak Response Unit,
National Institute for Communicable Diseases,
Johannesburg, Sandringham, South Africa

Tom Boyles
Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine,
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Clive M. Brown
Quarantine and Border Health Services Branch,
Division of Global Migration and Quarantine,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Michael G. Bruce
Arctic Investigations Program, DPEI, NCEZID,
CDC, Anchorage, Alaska, USA

Gerd D. Burchard
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine,
Hamburg, Germany

Bin Cao
Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology,
Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Beijing, China;
Institute of Respiratory Medicine,
Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Francesco Castelli
University Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseaases,
University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Eric Caumes
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases,
Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Université Pierre et Marie Curie,
Paris, France

Lin H. Chen
Travel Medicine Center, Division of Infectious Diseases,
Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA;
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Francis E.G. Cox (in memoriam)
Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
London, UK

Peter J. de Vries
Department of Internal Medicine, Tergooi Hospital,
Hilversum, The Netherlands

Alexander Erovichenkov
Department of Infectious Diseases,
Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education,
Moscow, Russia

Birgitta Evengard
Division of Infectious Diseases,
Department of Clinical Microbiology,
Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Philip R. Fischer
Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Philippe Gautret
Unité de Recherche sur les maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes,
Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France

Matthew German
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pier Francesco Giorgetti
University Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseaases,
University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Martin P. Grobusch
Center for Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine,
Department of Infectious Diseases,
Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Davidson H. Hamer
Center for Global Health and Development,
Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Tufts University Friedman
School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

David Harley
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health,
Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia

Christoph Hatz
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute,
University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland;
Department of Medicine and Diagnostic Services,
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Luiz Jacintho da Silva (in memoriam)
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medical Sciences,
University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Kamran Khan
Li Ka Shing Knowlege Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mikio Kimura
Shin-Yamanote Hospital, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association,
Higashi-Murayama, Tokyo, Japan

Anders Koch
Department of Epidemiology Research,
Statens Serum Institut and Department of Infectious Diseases,
Rigshospitalet University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Karin Ladefoged
Department of Internal Medicine, Queen Ingrid's Hospital,
Nuuk, Greenland

Karin Leder
Travel Medicine and Immigrant Health, Victorian Infectious Disease Service,
Royal Melbourne Hospital and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit,
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine,
Monash University, Australia

Michael Libman
J.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical Diseases;
Division of Infectious Diseases; and Department of Microbiology,
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Rogelio López-Vélez
National Referral Unit for Tropical Diseases, Infectious Diseases Department,
Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Larry I. Lutwick
Department of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Immunology,
Stryker School of Medicine, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
Michigan, USA; Editor, ID Cases; Moderator,
ProMED Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases

Lawrence C. Madoff
Editor, ProMED-mail; International Society for Infectious Diseases,
Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology,
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA

Boubacar Maiga
Department of Epidemiology of Parasitic Diseases,
Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odonto-Stomatology,
Malaria Research and Training Center, USTTB, Bamako, Mali

Audrone Marcinkute
University Hospital, Santariskiu Klinikos and Clinic of Infectious Diseases,
Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Karen J. Marienau
US Public Health Service (Ret.), St Paul, Minnesota, USA

Anthony J. McMichael (in memoriam)
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Ziad A. Memish
Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Marc Mendelson
Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine,
Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town,
Cape Town, South Africa

Maria D. Mileno
Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Brian T. Montague
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado,
Aurora, Colorado, USA

Terri L. Montague
Western Nephrology, Arvada, Colorado, USA

Nadjet Mouffok
Service des Maladies Infectieuses,
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Oran, Oran, Algeria

Holy Murphy
CIWEC Hospital and CIWEC Clinic Travel Medicine Center,
Kathmandu, Nepal

Andreas Neumayr
Department of Medicine and Diagnostic Services,
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland;
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Francesca F. Norman
National Referral Unit for Tropical Diseases,
Infectious Diseases Department, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital,
Madrid, Spain

Prativa Pandey
CIWEC Hospital and CIWEC Clinic Travel Medicine Center,
Kathmandu, Nepal

Daniel H. Paris
Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health,
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford,
Oxford, UK; Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit,
Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University,
Bangkok, Thailand

Philippe Parola
Unité des Rickettsies, Faculté de Médecine,
Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France

Malgorzata Paul
Department and Clinic of Tropical and Parasitic Diseases,
University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Androula Pavli
Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention,
Athens, Greece

José-Antonio Pérez-Molina
National Referral Unit for Tropical Diseases,
Infectious Diseases Department, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital,
Madrid, Spain

Olga Perovic
Centre for Opportunistic, Tropical and Hospital Infections,
National Institute for Communicable Diseases
and University of Witwatersrand, Johhannesburg, South Africa

Eskild Petersen
Institute of...