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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank Claire Kendig for updating the excellent glossary originally compiled by Charles Upchurch, Susan Gibbs, and Paul Walden. She added over 350 new terms for this edition. Many people at UNC Hospitals gathered clinical information and material for us, especially Alan Kerr, Melissa Jones, Amy Sweeney, Sonia Allen, and Eric Weimer. We thank several people who took original photographs, including Billy Williams, Kevin Alby, Vincent Moylan, and Anthony Tran.

We are grateful for the generosity of many people who supplied cases for this edition of the book. We particularly would like to thank Natalie Bowman and Christopher Lippincott for providing specific cases seen during their fellowship. We also thank colleagues at other institutions who supplied images and cases, especially Joan Barenfanger for the Ehrlichia photos; Lynne Garcia for the Trichomonas and Giardia figures; Krishnan Parayth for the photos of the coccidioidomycosis patient; Thomas Treadwell for the dengue case and selected patient photos; Charles Krasner for the syphilis case; and Svetlana Shalfeeva for the hantavirus case. We thank Alison Holmes and Fiona Cooke for their contributions toward making the Table of Normal Values relevant to health care professionals who work with units that are not commonly in use in the United States. We are grateful to the authors of Color Atlas of Medical Microbiology, Second Edition—Luis M. de la Maza, Marie Pezzlo, Janet Shigei, Grace L. Tan, and Ellena M. Peterson—who graciously allowed us to use figures from that excellent text.

We especially want to recognize Traci Briggs who trouble-shot editing issues and masterfully managed the flow of information between the authors and ASM Press. We would like to thank Mark C. Via for excellent copyediting. We would particularly like to thank Ellie Tupper, ASM Press, for overseeing this project with diligence, good humor, encouragement, and superior organizational skills.

Finally, to the many patients and their families from whom we learned, thank you. Any shortcomings in this text are solely the responsibility of the authors.