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Bhagyashri D Navalkele, MD, MBBS Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Mississippi School of Medicine

Bhagyashri D Navalkele, MD, MBBS is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Physicians, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Medical Council of India, Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Miriam T Levine, MD Fellow, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Miriam T Levine, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Physicians, American Society for Microbiology, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Society of General Internal Medicine

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Pranatharthi Haran Chandrasekar, MBBS, MD Professor, Chief of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Pranatharthi Haran Chandrasekar, MBBS, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Physicians, American Society for Microbiology, International Immunocompromised Host Society, Infectious Diseases Society of America

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Mary L Windle, PharmD Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape Drug Reference

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Michael Stuart Bronze, MD David Ross Boyd Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Stewart G Wolf Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center; Master of the American College of Physicians; Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London

Michael Stuart Bronze, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Alpha Omega Alpha, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association, Association of Professors of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Oklahoma State Medical Association, Southern Society for Clinical Investigation

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