HIV/AIDS (cont.)
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Authors and Editors
Authors: MaryAnn Tran, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine; Mary Nettleman, MD, MS, MACP, Chair, Department of Medicine, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, Chief Medical Editor, eMedicineHealth.com
Previous contributing author and editors:
Author: Sat Sharma, MD,
FRCPC, FCCP, Program Director, Associate Professor, Department of Internal
Medicine, Divisions of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of
Manitoba; Site Coordinator of Respiratory Medicine, St Boniface General Hospital.
Editors: Ruben
Olmedo, MD, Chief, Division of Toxicology, Clinical Assistant Professor,
Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center; Francisco
Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Ron Fuerst, MD,
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of South Carolina College of Medicine; Director, Children's Emergency Center, Children's Hospital of Richland Memorial Hospital.
Last Editorial Review: 7/21/2008
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