

Aims and Scope
The Journal of Clinical Virology
(JCV) is an international journal publishing papers on any aspect of human virology that directly pertains
to virus-induced clinical conditions
.
Articles from any field of virological study will be considered if the article is relevant to the
understanding or manipulation of a disease state.
Editors-in-Chief
Bert Niesters,
University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Medical Microbiology, Division of Clinical Virology, Hanzeplein 1, 9713
GZ Groningen, The Netherlands. Phone:
(+31) 50-361.0223
/5060, Fax:
(+31) 50-361.9105.
e-mail:
H.G.M.Niesters@umcg.nlChristine Ginocchio,
bioMerieux, Inc, 100 Rodolphe St, Durham, NC 27717 and Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, 500
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549. Phone:
(+1)919-638-0668
; e-mail:
cginocch@gmail.comAssociate Editors
Fausto Baldanti,
Pavia, Italy
Penelope H. Dennehy,
Providence, USA
Robert de Man,
Rotterdam, Netherlands
S. Terence Dunn,
Oklahoma City, USA
Susanna Esposito,
Milan, Italy
Randall Hayden,
Memphis, USA
Saleem Kamili,
Atlanta, USA
Harald H. Kessler,
Graz, Austria
Marion Koopmans,
Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Bruno Lina,
Lyon, France
Ian Mackay,
Brisbane, Australia
Paul D. Olivo,
St. Louis, USA
Benjamin Pinsky
, California, USA
Mario Poljak,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Scott Schmid,
Atlanta, USA
Prem L. Sharma,
Decatur, USA
Ken Shroyer,
New York, USA
Kate Templeton,
Edinburgh, Scotland
Jan ter Meulen,
Seattle, USA
Yun F. Wang,
Atlanta, USA
Xiaotian Zheng,
Chicago, USA
Editorial Board
S. Aberle,
Vienna, Austria
R. Aggarwal,
Lucknow, India
C. Aitken,
Glasgow, UK
S. Andersson,
Örebro, Sweden
J. Aslanzadeh
,
Hartford, USA
H. Balfour,
Minneapolis, USA
C. Balotta,
Milan, Italy
M. Bankowski,
Honolulu, USA
T. Bergstrom,
Göteborg, Sweden
B. Böttiger,
Copenhagen, Denmark
B. Branson,
Atlanta, USA
W. Carman,
Junglingster, Luxembourg
D. Carrington,
Bristol, UK
J. Deák,
Szeged, Hungary
J. Dillner,
Malmo, Sweden
H.W. Doerr,
Frankfurt, Germany
C. Drosten,
Bonn and Hamburg, Germany
M. Echavarria,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
V. Emery,
London, UK
M. Feltkamp,
Leiden, The Netherlands
H. Fernandez,
Newark, USA
S. Fiscus,
Chapel Hill, USA
G. Gerna,
Pavia, Italy
V. Goossens,
Maastricht, The Netherlands
J. Guarner,
Atlanta, USA
K. Henrickson,
Milwaukee, USA
D. Hillyard,
Utah, USA
R. Hodinka,
Philadelphia, USA
R. Horvat,
Kansas City, USA
D. Huang,
Chicago, USA
P. Hubacek,
Prague, Czech Republic
J.F. Jones,
Atlanta, USA
J. Jordan,
Washington, USA
Y. Khudyakov,
Atlanta, USA
K. Kibler,
Tempe, USA
P. Kinchington,
Pittsburgh, USA
P. Klapper,
Manchester, UK
C. Kraft,
Atlanta, USA
A.C.M. Kroes,
Leiden, Netherlands
G. Kudesia,
Sheffield, UK
U. Kumlin,
Umea, Sweden
M. Landry,
New Haven, USA
M. Levin,
Aurora, USA
M. Lewinski,
Los Angeles, USA
W. Melchers,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
E. Mendelson,
Tel-Hashomer, Israel
J. Middeldorp,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J. Minarovits,
Budapest, Hungary
J. Moffat,
Syracuse, USA
C. Moore,
Cardiff, UK
C. Muller,
Luxembourg
K. Mutton,
Manchester, UK
F. Nolte,
Charleston, USA
S.A. Nordbo,
Trondheim, Norway
S. Oberste,
Atlanta, USA
P.J. Paixao,
Lisboa, Portugal
M. Pallansch,
Atlanta, USA
E. Puchhammer-Stöckl,
Vienna, Austria
M. Purdy,
Atlanta, USA
H.F. Rabenau,
Frankfurt, Germany
C. Robinson,
Denver, USA
P. Rothbarth,
Leiderdorp, The Netherlands
K. Sagoe,
Accra, Ghana
R. Sahli,
Lausanne, Switzerland
M. Salminen,
Helsinki, Finland
J.-C. Schmit,
Luxembourg
L. Shen,
Baltimore, MD, USA
E. Smith,
Iowa City, USA
P. Smits,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
G. Sourvinos,
Heraklion-Crete, Greece
S. Specter,
Tampa, USA
S. Spector,
La Jolla, USA
K. St. George,
Slingerlands, USA
K. Stellrecht,
Albany, USA
V. Stepanova,
Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
E. Swierkosz,
St Louis, USA
Y.-W. Tang,
Nashville, USA
G.J. Tsongalis,
Lebanon, USA
R. Vainionpaa,
Turku, Finland
P.J. Vallely,
Manchester, UK
A. Valsamakis,
Baltimore, MD, USA
B. van den Hoogen,
The Netherlands
K. Wolthers,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
B. Yen-Liberman,
Cleveland, USA
S. Yerly,
Geneva, Switzerlan
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G. Yilmaz,
Istanbul, Turkey
L. Zerboni,
Stanford, USA
Ex Officio Society Representatives
PASCV
Gregory Storch (President PASCV)
Christine Ginocchio (Past President PASCV)
ESCV
Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl (President ESCV)
Peter Coyle (Past President ESCV)
Associate Editor for Internal Audit
M. Zuckerman,
London, UK
Committee for Internal Audit
F. Baldanti,
Pavia, Italy
T. Dunn,
Oklahoma City, USA
B. Gärtner,
Homburg, Germany
K. Hedman,
Helsinki, Finland
D. Newton,
Ann Arbor, USA
P. Pancholi,
Ohio, USA
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