editor in chief, Michael J. Loeffelholz, Professor in the Department of Pathology, Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston ; editors, Richard L. Hodinka, Professor in the Microbiology Department and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Stephen A. Young, Director of Research and Clinical Trials at TriCore Reference Laboratories, Benjamin A. Pinsky, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pathology and Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, at the Stanford University School of Medicine