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Experience. MAJ Washington. currently serves as the chief of Microbi-
ology Research at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu,
Excellence. Hawaii. E-mail: michael.a.washington120.mil@mail.mil.

LTC Barnhill currently serves as the chief of Clinical Micro-
biology at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

SPC Duff currently serves as a health care specialist (MOS
68W) in the Vascular Limb Salvage Clinic at Tripler Army
Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Ms Griffin is currently a nurse practitioner in the Vascular
Limb Salvage Clinic at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hono-
lulu, Hawaii.

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