Acknowledgments

Staff with the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE) at CDC's National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP) and the panel of expert consultants who prepared this report thank the following persons who attended a September 1998 meeting sponsored by the American Thoracic Society and CDC and provided advice about revising the recommendations on TB preventive therapy: George W. Comstock, M.D., Dr.P.H., Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, Hagerstown, Maryland; Mark S. Dworkin, M.D., Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention--Surveillance and Epidemiology, NCHSTP, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; Lawrence J. Geiter, Ph.D., Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation, Arlington, Virginia; Peter Godfrey-Faussett, M.D., M.R.C.P., Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Richard F. Jacobs, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Disease, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas; Alwyn G. Mwinga, M.D., M.B., Ch.B., M.Sc., M.Med., Department of Medicine, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia; and James D. Neaton, Ph.D., Coordinating Center for Biometric Research, Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The authors also acknowledge the following persons for assisting in the preparation of this report: Ann H. Lanner, Sylvia R. Ivill, Maria V. Fraire, M.P.H., Nickolas M. DeLuca, M.A., Dianne H. Meeks, and Sherry M. Hussain, DTBE, NCHSTP, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; Amanda Crowell, Judith E. Luchtan, C. Kay Smith-Akin, M.Ed., and Rachel J. Wilson, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; and Paula I. Fujiwara, M.D., M.P.H., Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, New York, New York, and DTBE, NCHSTP, CDC.

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