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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

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Luciano Goldani, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, PORTO ALEGRE, RS, Brazil

Area of expertise: AIDS and Opportunistic Infections; Antifungicals; Infections by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis,  Histoplasma,  Cryptococcus,  Rhodotorula,  and Other Emerging Fungi

Associate Editors

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Alberto Chebabo, MD, MSc

Medical Division, Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ, Brazil

Area of expertise: Hospital Infections; Microbiology; Bacterial and Viral Infections

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Ana Gales, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: Antimicrobial Resistance

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Angelica E. Miranda, MD, PhD

Department of Social Medicine, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, VITORIA, ES, Brazil

Area of expertise: Infectious Diseases in Gynecology and Obstetrics; HIV and STI

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Helio Sader, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, North Liberty, SP, United States of America

Area of expertise: Clinical Microbiology Laboratory; Antimicrobial Resistance; Hospital Epidemiology; New Drug Development

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Maria Cássia Mendes-Corrêa, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: Viral Hepatitis; Hospital Infections

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Kleper Almeida, MD

Infectious Diseases Division, JFK Medical Center, Palm Beach County, FL, United States of America

Area of expertise: General infectious Diseases; Transplant-related Infections; Cardiac Device-related Infections; Diagnostic Tests Evaluation

Zilton Andrade, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, BA, Brazil

Area of expertise: Hepatic Fibrosis; Cirrhosis; Chagas Disease

Evaldo Araujo, MSc, PhD

Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: Viral Hepatitis; Hospital Infections; Public Health

Erico Arruda, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

Area of expertise: HIV/AIDS

Antonio Barone, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: Tropical Medicine

Cristiana Carvalho, MSc, PhD

Department of Pediatrics, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal da Bahia, SALVADOR, BA, Brazil

Area of expertise: Pediatric Infectious Diseases; Mother and Child Health

Edgard Carvalho, MD, MPH, PhD

Department of Parasitology, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal da Bahia, SALVADOR, BA, Brazil

Area of expertise:Immunology and Immunotherapy of Leishmaniasis; Allergy and Infections by Helminths; Immunopathogenesis of HIV Infection

Adauto Castelo Filho, MD, PhD

Núcleo de Patologias Infecciosas da Gestação (NUPAIG), Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: HIV/AIDS; Viral Hepatitis; HPV; Tuberculosis

Sergio Cimerman, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Emilio Ribas, Instituto de Infectologia Emílio Ribas, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: HIV/AIDS; Intestinal Parasitosis

Arnaldo Colombo, MD, PhD, FEMM

Department of Infectious Diseases, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: Clinical Mycology

Julio Croda, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil

Area of expertise: TB in Populations Deprived of Liberty; Arbovirosis; COVID-19

Jan Felix Drexler, MD, PhD

Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, German Center for Infectious Diseases Research, Bonn, Germany

Area of expertise: Emerging Infections

Alberto Duarte, MSc, PhD

Department of Pathology, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: Experimental Immunomodulation; Immunopathology

Marcelo Ferreira, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil

Area of expertise: HIV/AIDS

Mitermayer Galvão, MD, PhD

Molecular Biology Laboratory, Instituto Gonçalo Muniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, BA, Brazil

Area of expertise: Pathology; Infectious and Parasitic Diseases; Tropical Medicine

Eduardo Gotuzzo, MD, FACP, FIDSA

Department of Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Area of expertise: Emerging diseases; TB; HTLV-1; Free-living Amoebas; Brucellosis; Typhoid Fever; Cholera; Leptospirosis; Parasites

Carlos Graeff-Teixeira, MD, PhD

Department of Parasitology, Faculdade de Medicina, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, PORTO ALEGRE, RS, Brazil

Area of expertise: Human Helminthology

Renato Grinbaum, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: Hospital Infections; Antimicrobial Agents

Beatriz Grinsztein, MD,PhD

Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ, Brazil

Area of expertise: HIV/AIDS; STIs; Tuberculosis

Richard Guerrant, MD, PhD

Division of Infectious Diseases & International Health, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

Area of expertise: Recognition,  Diagnosis,  Pathogenesis,  Impact,  Treatment and Prevention of Enteric Infections; Global Health; Tropical Infectious Diseases

Sylvia L Hinrichsen, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina,, RECIFE, PE, Brazil

Area of expertise: Travel-associated Infections and Prevention

Esper Kallas, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: HIV/AIDS; Immunology of Infectious Diseases; Vaccines

Guido Levi, MD

Department of Health, Comissão Permanente Assessora em Imunizações da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde de S. Paulo, Instituto de Infectologia Emílio Ribas, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: Infectious Diseases; Vaccines

Maria Lima, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, CAMPINAS, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: Vertical Transmission of Infectious Diseases; Hospital Infections; Antiviral Therapy (HIV,  HBV,  and HCV)

Kleber Luz, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, NATAL, RN, Brazil

Area of expertise: Tropical Diseases — Visceral Leishmaniasis,  Dengue and Viral Hepatitis

Andre Lyra, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal da Bahia, SALVADOR, BA, Brazil

Area of expertise: Hepatitis; Stem-cells; Advanced chronic Liver Disease

Edson Duarte Moreira Junior, MD, PhD

Department of Healthcare Biotechnology and Investigative Medicine, Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, RIO DE JANEIRO, BA, Brazil

Area of expertise: HPV; Rotavirus; Antimicrobial Resistance; Leishmaniasis

Eduardo Netto, MD, MPH, PhD

Laboratório de Pesquisa em Infectologia, Hospital Univ. Prof. Edgard Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, SALVADOR, BA, Brazil

Area of expertise: Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology

Alessandro Pasqualotto, MD, PhD, MBA, FECMM

Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, PORTO ALEGRE, RS, Brazil

Area of expertise: Fungal infections

Jorge Pinto, MD, PhD

Department of Pediatrics, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, BELO HORIZONTE, MG, Brazil

Area of expertise: Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV; Primary Immunodeficiencies

Boris Renjifo, MD, PhD

Division of Medical Sciences, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Area of expertise: HIV/AIDS

Reinaldo Salomão, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases — Sepsis

Mauro Schechter, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ, Brazil

Area of expertise: HIV/AIDS; TB; Hepatitis

Robert Schooley, MD, PhD

Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California, Oakland, CA, United States of America

Area of expertise: HIV/AIDS; Hepatitis

Aluisio Augusto Cotrim Segurado, MSc, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: Retrovirology; Tropical Medicine; Global Health

Jeffrey Jon Shaw, MD, MPH, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, SP, Brazil

Area of expertise: Medical Entomology; Tropical Diseases

Eduardo Sprinz, MD, ScD

Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, PORTO ALEGRE, RS, Brazil

Area of expertise: HIV/AIDS

Felipe Tuon, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Paraná, CURITIBA, PR, Brazil

Area of expertise: Hospital Infections; Microbiology

Maria Yasuda, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, Brazil

Area of expertise: Paracoccidioidomycosis; Fungal Infections in Immunosuppressed Patients

Alexandre Zavascki, MD, PhD

Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, PORTO ALEGRE, RS, Brazil

Area of expertise: Antimicrobial Resistance,  Hospital Infections

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