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Editor-in-Chief Burke A. Cunha, MD, MACP Chief, Infectious Disease Division Winthrop-Univeristy Hospital Mineola, New York Professor of Medicine State University of New York School of Medicine Stony Brook, New York SECTION 1: FEVER 1. Diagnostic Approach to Fever Burke A. Cunha, MD 2. Rash and Fever Fred A. Lopez, MD Charles V. Sanders, MD 3. Fever in Returning Travelers Mark R. Wallace, MD Matthew L. Lim, MD Nancy F. Crum-Cianflone, MD Braden R. Hale, MD 4. Fever of Unknown Origin Burke A. Cunha, MD SECTION 2: GENERAL TOPICS IN INFECTIOUS DISEASE 5. Prevention and Control of Hospital-Acquired Infections: Hospital Epidemiology and Outbreak Investigation Barry M. Farr, MD 6. Immunodeficiencies: Congenital and Acquired Burke A. Cunha, MD 7. Infections in the Elderly Thomas T. Yoshikawa, MD 8. Laboratory Clues in Infectious Disease Diagnosis Burke A. Cunha, MD 9. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Paul E. Sax, MD 10. Zoonoses Burke A. Cunha, MD 11. Systemic Mycoses Donna C. Sullivan, PhD Stanley W. Chapman, MD 12. Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections Laurel Preheim, MD Marvin J. Bittner, MD, MSc 13. Parasitic Infections James H. Maguire, MD 14. Tick-Borne Infectious Diseases Burke A. Cunha, MD SECTION 3: INFECTIOUS DISEASE SYNDROMES 15. Meningitis Steven I. Aronin, MD Vincent J. Quagliarello, MD 16. Acute Viral Encephalitis Burke A. Cunha, MD 17. Infectious Mononucleosis: Epstein-Barr Virus and the Causes of Heterophile-Negative Disease Larry I. Lutwick, MD 18. The Acute Pneumonias Burke A. Cunha, MD 19. The Atypical Pneumonias Burke A. Cunha, MD 20. Infective Endocarditis John L. Brusch, MD 21. Viral Hepatitis Raymond S. Koff, MD 22. Infectious Diarrhea Davidson H. Hamer, MD Sherwood L. Gorbach, MD