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John Booss is Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Laboratory Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. For twelve years he was the National Program Director of Neurology for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Following residency in neurology, he trained in virology with G.-D. Hsiung, to whom this book is dedicated, and subsequently worked with E. F. Wheelock in viral immunology. He studied experimental models of viral infection of the brain, modulation of immune functions by murine cytomegalovirus, and T cells in multiple sclerosis with Margaret M. Esiri in Oxford and studied the host response to xenogenic brain cell transplantation with C. Jacque in Paris. Dr. Booss’ clinical interests have focused on viral encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, and the neurology of HIV/AIDS. He and Professor Esiri are coauthors of Viral Encephalitis in Humans, published by the ASM Press in 2003. (Republished with permission from the American Academy of Neurology Institute.)

Marilyn J. August was trained as a clinical virologist and microbiologist, completing her undergraduate work in microbiology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her PhD in virology with an emphasis on electron microscopy at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. With training in both microbiology and virology, she became a postdoctoral fellow with G.-D. Hsiung at Yale University School of Medicine, which launched her career in clinical, diagnostic virology. Her professional activities progressed with positions as director of hospital and clinical diagnostic virology, microbiology, and infectious serology laboratories in southern California. Accepting a new challenge and returning to her roots in virology, Dr. August moved to the biotechnology industry in northern California and joined Aviron (now MedImmune/AstraZeneca) as director of the clinical testing laboratory, overseeing clinical trials testing to support pivotal studies that contributed to the approval of a live, intranasal influenza vaccine that was first licensed in 2003. Dr. August’s recent professional activities include consulting as a scientist and freelance medical writer-editor between wonderful trips, hiking adventures, and activities as a Let’s Look at Art docent for the San Jose Museum of Art. (Photo by Laurie Naiman.)