Editor
ALEXANDER J. MCADAM, MD, PhD
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Authors
IBNE KARIM M. ALI, PhD
Free-Living and Intestinal Amebas Laboratory, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
CHERYL A. BOPP, MS
Unit Chief, Epidemic Investigations Laboratory, Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
ALLEN BRYAN, MD, PhD
Clinical Fellow in Pathology, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology, Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
CAREY-ANN D. BURNHAM, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
VITALIANO A. CAMA, DVM, PhD
Supervisory Microbiologist, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
JOHN P. DEKKER, MD, PhD
Medical Officer; Co-director of Bacteriology, Parasitology, and Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
MATHEW D. ESONA, PhD
Microbiologist, Division of Viral Diseases, Gastroenteritis and Respiratory Viruses Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
ANDREW S. FIELD, MBBS(Hons), FRCPA, FIAC, DiplomaCytopathology(RCPA)
Deputy Director and Senior Pathologist, Department of Anatomic Pathology, St Vincent’s Hospital; Associate Professor, Notre Dame University Medical School, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
COLLETTE FITZGERALD, PhD
Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
KAREN M. FRANK, MD, PhD, D(ABMM)
Supervisory Medical Officer; Chief of Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
RASHI GAUTAM, PhD
Microbiologist, Division of Viral Diseases, Gastroenteritis and Respiratory Viruses Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
PETER H. GILLIGAN, PhD, D(ABMM), F(AAM)
Director, Clinical Microbiology-Immunology Laboratories, UNC HealthCare; Professor, Pathology-Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology-Immunology, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
MARK D. GONZALEZ, PhD
Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
ROMNEY M. HUMPHRIES, PhD, D(ABMM)
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
J. MICHAEL JANDA, PhD, D(ABMM)
Director of Laboratory Services, Alameda County Public Health Laboratory, Oakland, California
BONITA E. LEE, MD, MSc
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
BLAINE A. MATHISON, BS
Microbiologist, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
ALEXANDER J. McADAM, MD, PhD
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
DANNY A. MILNER Jr, MD, MSc, FCAP
Associate Professor of Pathology and Pathologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
SCOTT MORRISON, MSc
Luminex Corporation, Austin, Texas
ANNA E. NEWTON, MPH
Surveillance Epidemiologist, Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
XIAOLI PANG, PhD
Program Leader, Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Walter Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre, University of Alberta Hospital; Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
AUDREY N. SCHUETZ, MD, MPH, D(ABMM)
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
YI-WEI TANG, MD, PhD
Clinical Microbiology Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York
CRAIG B. WILEN, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
ILAN YOUNGSTER, MD
Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
HONGWEI ZHANG, MD, PhD
Luminex Corporation, Austin, Texas