| I would like to thank my friends and colleagues at the Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine who, over the past fifteen years, have contributed to our research concerning herpes simplex virus infections. They include Martin Myers, David Bernstein, Nigel Bourne, Shirley Reising, Frank Biro, and Susan Rosenthal. I want to acknowledge the important work of some pioneers in the field of clinical herpesvirus research, including Ann Arvin and Charles Prober of Stanford University, Larry Corey, Anna Wald, Rhoda Ashley, and Zane Brown at the University of Washington-Seattle, Steve Straus at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, Rich Whitley at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Steve Sacks at the University of British Columbia, Tony Cunningham and Andrian Mindel at the University of Sydney, Steve Kohl at the University of California at San Francisco, Andre Nahmias at Emory University, Moncef Slaoui at SmithKline Beecham Biologicals in Rixensart, Belgium, Rae Lyn Burke at Chiron Vaccines in Emeryville, California, Tsuneo Morishima at Nagoya University, and Phil Krause at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. I would like to thank Terri Warren of Westover Clinic, Michael Reitano and Charles Ebel of the Herpes Advice Center, and Peggy Clarke of the American Social Health Association for their influential thoughts regarding sensitive psychosocial issues surrounding herpes and the impact of such issues on the lives of people with the disease. I thank Desiree Ellison and Monica Bohlen for their help with the section on herpes and the law. I am grateful to Rick Pyles for his generous donation of the electron photomicrograph of the herpes simplex virus, to Toni Cunningham for help with manuscript preparation, to Margret Richards and Deborah Stewart for help with the glossary, and especially to my colleague Bev Connelly for creating the figures. Thanks go to Miriam Bloom, editor of the Understanding Health and Sickness Series |
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