Aims & Scope

Aims

Germs (ISSN 2248-2997) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding in the field of infectious diseases in humans at the highest standards. The journal provides a platform for the dissemination of high-quality research, clinical insights, and public health perspectives that address the prevention, diagnosis, management, and control of infectious diseases worldwide. It publishes article types including Research Papers, Reviews, and other formats. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced.

We welcome contributions from researchers, clinicians, microbiologists, epidemiologists, public health professionals, and policy-makers. Germs publishes articles on a wide range of topics, describing research results in all areas connected to infectious diseases.

Scope

• Infectious diseases across clinical and public health domains
• Epidemiology of communicable diseases
• Clinical microbiology and applied virology
• Infection prevention and control
• Antimicrobial resistance and stewardship
• Vaccinology and immunization
• Diagnostics and biomarkers in infectious diseases
• Host–pathogen interactions and immunity
• Emerging and re-emerging pathogens
• Global health, One Health, and socio-economic determinants of infections
• Public health preparedness and outbreak response
• Policy, health systems, and ethics in infectious diseases

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Germs will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

Reprints

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