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18 List of contributors Author: Ke*epa:\>oe ’ocJ*apcH&e>>oe IRepe0*e>4e =aJk4’ocJ*apcH&e>>Z6 =aJR>Z6 Oe>Hp Jens H. Kuhn, MD, ScD, MSc B4pJco:o(44 4 #4oHex>o:o(44 «BekHop» Research Scholar, Division of Tumor Virology, Ke*epa:\>o6 C:J0$Z Bo =a*2opJ&CLepe New England Primate Research Center (NEPRC), 1aV4HZ Apa&AoHpe$4He:e64#:a(oBo:JR4b Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genet- Qe:o&eka ;4>4cHepcH&o 1*pa&ooxpa>e>4b 4 ics, Harvard Medical School (HMS), 1 Pine Hill CoP4a:\>o(oPa2&4H4b (K’I= ’=O B# Drive, Southborough, MA 01772-9102, U.S.A.; «BekHop» PocBoHpe$>a*2opa) [Federal State Scien- Phone: þ1 (508) 786-3326; Fax: þ1 (508) 786- tific Institution – State Research Center for Virol- 3317; Email: fi[email protected]. Member, ogy and Biotechnology ‘‘Vector’’ of the Federal CBW Scientists Working Group, Center for Arms Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Pro- Control and Non-Proliferation, Washington, D.C., tection and Human Well-being of the Ministry of U.S.A.; Email: [email protected] Health and Social Development of Russia (FSRI SRCVB ‘‘Vector’’, Rospotrebnadzor)], Ko:ZPo&o Editor: [Koltsovo], 630559, =o&oc4$4pckab o$:acH\ [Novosibirsk Region], Pocc4b [Russia]; Phone: Charles H. Calisher, PhD þ7 (383) 3366173; Fax: þ7 (383) 3367409; Email: Professor, Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases [email protected] Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Im- munology and Pathology, College of Veterinary M. Javad Aman, PhD Medicine, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, President and Chief Scientific Officer, Integrated CO 80523, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 (970) 491-2987; BioTherapeutics Inc. (IBT), 4539 Metropolitan Fax: þ1 (970) 491-8707; Email: calisher@ Court, Frederick, MD 21704, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 cybersafe.net (301) 644-3910, extension 2120; Fax: þ1(301) 360-3554; Email: javad@integratedbiotherapeutics. Reviewers and Co-editors: com A(aLoHoB A:ekcaH*p A. Kevin Anderson, PhD [Aleksandr P. Agafonov], PhD Deputy Director, National Biodefense Analysis and 1a&e*J‘V46 9a$opaHop4e6K4:o- 4 Countermeasures Center (NBACC), Science & Ape>a&4pJc>Zx 3>LekP46 [Head of the Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Laboratory of Filo- and Arenavirus Infections], Security, 110 Thomas Johnson Drive, Suite 200, ?H*e:]B4*e<4o:o(44 ?co$ooBac>Zx Frederick, MD, 21702, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1(301) B4pJc>Zx 3>LekP46 [Department of Epidemiol- 682-3819; Fax: þ1 (301) 682-5268; Email: kevin. ogy of Especially Dangerous Viral Infections], [email protected] 350 List of contributors Daniel G. Bausch, MD, MPH&TM þ44 (20) 7927-2360; Fax: þ44 (20) 7637-4314; Associate Professor, Department of Tropical Email: [email protected] Medicine, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1430 Tulane Ave., SL-17, New Orleans, LA 70112, U.S.A.: Phone: þ1 (504) Joel G. Breman, MD, DTPH 988-6368; Fax: þ1 (504) 988-60686; Email: Senior Scientific Advisor, Fogarty International [email protected] Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bldg. 16, Room 214, 16 Center Drive, MSC 6705, Bethesda, MD 20892-6705, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 (301) 496-0815; þ Sina Bavari, PhD Fax: 1 (301) 496-8496; Email: [email protected] Chief, Immunology, Target Identification and Trans- lational Research, United States Army Medical Re- Alexander A. Bukreyev, PhD search Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, 1425 Porter Street, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 21702-5011, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 (301) 619-4246; (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Build- Fax: þ1 (301) 619-2348; Email: sina.bavari@us. ing 50, Room 6505, 50 South Drive, MSC 8007, army.mil Bethesda, MD 20892-8007, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 (301) 594-1854; Fax: þ1 (301) 496-8312; Email: [email protected] #e:aHoB EB(eH4466KK. [Yevgenii F. Belanov], PhD 1a&e*J‘V46 9a$opaHop4e6 M4<4Reck4x A>H4<4kpo$>Zx ApeBapaHo& [Head of the Kartik Chandran, PhD Laboratory of Chemical Antimicrobial Preparations], Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology Ke*epa:\>oe ’ocJ*apcH&e>>oe IRepe0*e>4e and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medi- =aJk4’ocJ*apcH&e>>Z6 =aJR>Z6 Oe>Hp cine of Yeshiva University, 414 Forchheimer Build- B4pJco:o(444#4oHex>o:o(44 «BekHop» ing, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, Ke*epa:\>o6 C:J0$Z Bo =a*2opJ&CLepe U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 (718) 430-2664; Fax: þ1 (718) 1aV4HZ Apa&AoHpe$4He:e64#:a(oBo:JR4b 430-8711; Email: [email protected] Qe:o&eka ;4>4cHepcH&o 1*pa&ooxpa>e>4b 4 CoP4a:\>o(oPa2&4H4b (K’I= ’=O B# Robert Colebunders, MD, PhD «BekHop» PocBoHpe$>a*2opa) [Federal State Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences, Prins Scientific Institution – State Research Center for Leopold Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde Virology and Biotechnology ‘‘Vector’’ of the [Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine] Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer (ITG), Nationalestraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium; Rights Protection and Human Well-being of the Phone: þ32 3 821-5256, Fax: þ32 3 825-4785; Ministry of Health and Social Development of Email: [email protected] Russia (FSRI SRCVB ‘‘Vector’’, Rospotrebnadzor)], Ko:\Po&o [Koltsovo], 630559, =o&oc4$4pckab o$:acH\ [Novosibirsk Region], Pocc4b [Russia]; Heinz Feldmann, MD, PhD Phone: þ7 (383) 3366459; Fax: þ7 (383) 3366459; Chief, Special Pathogens Program, National Email: [email protected] Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, and Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Matthias Borchert, MD, MSc 1015 Arlington Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E Clinical Lecturer, London School of Hygiene & 3R2, Canada; Phone: þ1 (204) 789-6019; Fax: Tropical Medicine, ITD=IDEU, Keppel Street, þ1 (204) 789-2140; Email: Heinz_Feldmann@ Room 257, London WC1E 7HT, U.K.; Phone: phac-aspc.gc.ca List of contributors 351 Claude Fauquet, PhD (360) 546-9449; Email: hewlett@vancouver. Director, International Laboratory for Tropical wsu.edu Agricultural Biotechnology (ILTAB), and Mem- ber, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 975 North David L. Heymann, MD Warson Road, St. Louis, MO 63132, U.S.A.; Assistant Director General, Communicable Dis- Phone: þ1 (314) 587-1241; Fax: þ1 (314) 587- eases, and Special Representative of the Director 1956; Email: [email protected] General for Polio Eradication, World Health Orga- nization (WHO), Avenue Apia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland; Phone: þ41 (22) 791-2212; Fax: Thomas W. Geisbert, PhD þ41 (22) 791-1571; Email: [email protected] Associate Director, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), and Professor, Department of Microbiology, Boston University Frank Hufert, MD, DTM&H School of Medicine, 715 Albany Street, R514, Professor of Virology and Vice Director, Institut Boston, MA 02118, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 (617) fu¨r Virologie [Institute of Virology], Bereich 638-4284; Fax: þ1 (617) 638-4286; Email: Humanmedizin [Department of Medicine], Georg- [email protected] August-Universit€aat [Georg August University], Kreuzbergring 57, 37075 Go¨ttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany; Phone: þ49 (551) 395872; Fax: Jean-Paul Gonzalez, MD, PhD þ49 (551) 394471; Email: [email protected] Directeur de Recherche [Research Unit Director], UR178 (Conditions et Territoires d’Emergence des Maladies [Fundamentals and Domains of M. Sofi Ibrahim, PhD, MSc Diseases Emergence]), Institut de Recherche Virology Division, United States Army Med- pour le De´veloppement [Institute for Re- ical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases search and Development] (IRD), France, and (USAMRIID), 1425 Porter Street, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD 21702, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 (301) 1–2 [Center for Vector and Vector- 618-8347; Fax: þ1 (301) 619-2290; Email: sofi. Borne Diseases, Faculty of Science, Mahidol Uni- [email protected] versity, Bldg. 1-2], [Salaya] 999, [Phutthamonthon] 4, [Tetsuro Ikegami], DVM, PhD [Nakhonpathom] 73170, [Thailand]; Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology Phone: þ66 (2) 441-0227; Fax: þ66 (2) 441- & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Brach 0227; Email: [email protected] (UTMB), 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555-1019, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 (409) 772- Mark Gorwitz 8172; Fax: þ1 (409) 772-5065; Email: teikegam@ Manager, Defense Technical Information Center utmb.edu (DTIC), Western Regional Office, 483 North Aviation Boulevard, Building 271, El Segundo, Peter B. Jahrling, PhD CA 90245-2808, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 (310) 653- Chief Scientist, National Institutes of Health= 3663; Fax: þ1 (310) 653-4114; Email: mark. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis- [email protected] eases (NIH=NIAID) Integrated Research Facility (IRF), 1437 Campus Drive, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Barry S. Hewlett, PhD MD 21702, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 (301) 451-5130; Professor of Anthropology, Washington State Uni- Fax: þ1 (301) 480-2319; Email: jahrlingp@ versity, Vancouver, WA 98686, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 niaid.nih.gov 352 List of contributors Barbara Johnson, PhD, RBP Birmingham, AL 35294-2170, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 President, Biosafety & Biosecurity Consultant, (205) 934-1946; Email: [email protected] Barbara Johnson and Associates, LLC, 1165 Reston Avenue, Herndon, VA 20170, U.S.A.; Phone: þ1 (703) 444-5028; Email: barbara_ Eric L. Leroy, DVM, PhD [email protected] Directeur de Recherche [Research Unit Director], UR 178, Institut de Recherche pour le De´veloppe- ment [Institute for Research and Development], Karl M. Johnson, MD Centre International de Recherche Me´dicale de 10 Calle Final, Placitas, NM 87043, U.S.A.; Phone: Franceville (CIRMF), BP 769
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