The adenovirus research team investigators include Leta Crawford-Miksza, Ph.D., Food and Drug Laboratory Branch of the California Department of Health Services in Richmond, Calif.; Jeffrey Dawson, Sc.D., Department of Biostatistics, UI College of Public Health; Gary Doern, Ph.D., professor of pathology in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine; Dean Erdman, Dr.P.H., Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga.; Adriana Kajon, Ph.D., Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in Albuquerque, N.M.; Margaret Ryan, M.D., Department of Defense Center for Deployment Health Research, Naval Health Research Center, in San Diego, Calif.; David Schnurr, Ph.D., Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory, California Department of Health Services in Berkeley, Calif.; and Sharon Setterquist, Emerging Pathogens Laboratory in the Epidemiology Department of the UI College of Public Health.

Investigators from 14 laboratories across the nation will soon be added to the research team. The Department of Defense Center for Deployment Health Research will serve as the 15th collaborating laboratory.

More information regarding the CEID may be found at the Center's Web site: public-health.uiowa/ceid/.