The Editors aim to ensure efficient publication of high quality, original Research
Papers and MiniReviews dealing with immunology and medical microbiology, and especially the interface between the two. The journal focuses
on correlates of infection and protection, mechanisms of pathogenesis and host-pathogenesis and host-pathogen interactions
of medically relevant viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa.
Main subject areas are:
(a) Interactions between the pathogen
and the host, including the nature of microbial factors responsible for pathogenesis and disease manifestation.
(b) Basic innate
and acquired immune mechanisms that are involved in the protection of the host from infectious diseases, e.g. antigen processing, immune
recognition, lymphokine or interleukin action, humoral and cell-mediated immune responses and antibodies, genetics of immune responses
to micro-organisms.
(c) Characterisation of microbial candidate antigens, their isolation by genetic modification techniques and
their uses in laboratory vaccine studies and ability to trigger protective, host immune responses.
(d) The journal covers most aspects
of diagnostic medical microbiology, especially the molecular identification and analysis of medically important microorganisms.
(e)
The journal will consider any paper that exploits post-genomic approaches (functional genomics) in addressing biological problems in
the main subject areas.
Published by Elsevier on behalf of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies
