Volume 8, Number 11—November 2002
THEME ISSUE
Tuberculosis Genotyping
Tuberculosis Genotyping Network, United States
National Tuberculosis Genotyping and Surveillance Network: Design and Methods
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1 Sentinel surveillance sites and personnel: 1) Arkansas Department of Health: Joseph Bates, Donald Cunningham, Kashef Ijaz, Bill Starrett, William Stead, and Frank Wilson; 2) California Department of Health Services: Rocio Agraz, Dan Chin, Jennifer Flood, Peter Oh, Sarah Royce, and Sumi Sun; 3) Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene: Wendy Cronin, Jonathan Golub, David Hooper, Nancy Hooper, Monica Lathan, Leonard Mukasa, and Jafar Razeq; 4) Massachusetts Department of Public Health: Edward Corkren, Paul Elvin, Sue Etkind, Ann Miller, Edward Nardell, Jill Northrup, Alissa Scharf, Sharon Sharnprapai, Alexander Sloutsky, Robert Suruki, and Debra Thimas; 5) Michigan Department of Community Health: Bernie Benecke, Matthew Boulton, Norm Keon, Michael Kucab, Dennis Minnice, Jolynn Montgomery, and Charles Williams II; 6) New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services: Nancy Buono, Mary Dillon, Zary Liu, Marcia Localio, Christian Nwigwe, Felicidad Santos, Mary Ellen Schulman, and Kenneth Shilkret; 7) Texas Department of Health: Dennis Ashworth, Dale Dingley Jr., Miguel Garza, Jeff Taylor, and Patricia Thickstun.
2Genotyping laboratories and personnel: 1) Alabama Department of Public Health and University of Alabama, Birmingham: William Benjamin Jr., Nancy Dunlap, Donna Hafner, Nancy Keenan, Kerry Lok, Donna Mulcahy, Virginia Pruitt, and Nancy Robinson; 2) Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare Services: M. Donald Cave, Kathleen Eisenach, Ndingsa Fomukong, and ZhenhuaYang; 3) California Department of Health Services: Jason Coloma, Jonna De Leon, Edward Desmond, Athena Fye, Marguerite Griffith, Melvin Javonillo, Travis Jobe, Rose Longoria, Cynthia Sanders, and Lourdes Seli; 4) Michigan Department of Community Health: Dale Berry, Steve Church, Stephen Dietrich, Frances Pouch Downes, Jeffrey Massey, Teresa Miller, Laura Mosher, and Patricia Somsel; 5) New York State Health Department,Wadsworth Center: Jeff Driscoll, Robert Jovall, Mike McGarry, Max Salfinger, and Harry Taber; 6) Public Health Research Institute, New York: Pablo Bifani, Barry Kreiswirth, Natalia Kurepina, Barun Mathema, Soraya Moghazeh, Alex Ravikovitch, and Elena Shashkina; and 7) Texas Center for Infectious Diseases: Yvonne Camarce, Rebecca Cox, J. Seb Gillette, Oscar Gonzalez, Kenneth Jost, D. Mitch Magee, Teresa Quitugua, Ishmael I. Rosas, and Jeffery Taylor.