1.   The Health Department is seeking the advice of a team of tropical disease specialists.

2.   Final microbiological diagnosis was made by two infectious disease specialists who weighed all available clinical evidence.

3.   But it is requesting changes that would reduce the required number of credits in continuing medical education and make it easier for infectious disease specialists to qualify.

4.   Doctors, veterinarians and federal disease control specialists offer the following tips for pet owners.

5.   Dr. Jane Ellen Aronson is a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Winthrop Hospital, in Mineola, whose practice now consists largely of children adopted internationally.

6.   Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo are the disease specialists in charge of keeping the deadly sickness from spreading.

7.   For decades, these samples have been stored in supercold freezers or beakers of formaldehyde, of interest mainly to disease specialists working in obscurity.

8.   Infectious disease specialists and health officials say the odds of anyone else catching the disease from a small amount of anthrax in the mail are near zero.

9.   Infectious disease specialists say the battle against drug-resistant microbes must be stepped up.