Rhinoviruses Differential Diagnoses

  • Author: Michael Rajnik, MD; Chief Editor: Burke A Cunha, MD   more...
 
Updated: Apr 15, 2011
 
 

Differential Diagnoses

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Michael Rajnik, MD  Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Program Director, Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Michael Rajnik, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Pediatrics, Armed Forces Infectious Diseases Society, Infectious Diseases Society of America, and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

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Specialty Editor Board

Gregory William Rutecki, MD  Associate Professor, Program Director, Department of Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Gregory William Rutecki, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Alpha Omega Alpha, American College of Physicians, American Society of Nephrology, National Kidney Foundation, and Society of General Internal Medicine

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Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD  Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine

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Gordon L Woods, MD  Consulting Staff, Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center

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Eleftherios Mylonakis, MD  Clinical and Research Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital

Eleftherios Mylonakis, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College of Physicians, American Society for Microbiology, and Infectious Diseases Society of America

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Chief Editor

Burke A Cunha, MD  Professor of Medicine, State University of New York School of Medicine at Stony Brook; Chief, Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital

Burke A Cunha, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Physicians, and Infectious Diseases Society of America

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