Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
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
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
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
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
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
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
Editorial Board
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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