Aims & Scope

Aims:

The Journal of Microbes in Health and Disease (JMHD) is a gold open access, peer-reviewed journal that aims to provide microbiologists, bio-technologists, experts in beneficial microbes, hygienists, epidemiologists and veterinarians with the most updated information on basic and applied microbiology, including environmental, industrial and food microbiology as well as bacterial, fungal and viral infections affecting humans and animals. JMHD is published quarterly online by Scilight Press.

Scope:

JMHD will be focused on relevant issues for public health such as the epidemiology and pathogenesis of emerging and re-emerging microbial infections and the host immune response, to promote a wide diffusion of the findings of the translational research and a prompt transfer at clinical level of the most promising and reliable experimental results.  

In particular, the new strategies for the treatment of acute, chronic, or biofilm-based infections, especially those caused by multidrug-resistant microorganisms and new viral agents, as well as the role of old and new drugs and vaccines and the development of effective antimicrobial matrices, will also be addressed in the light of the most recent achievements.

The set up of new experimental methods and the development of innovative laboratory protocols to explore the physicochemical properties, the ultrastructure, the metabolic activities, and the pathogenicity of microbes, with special emphasis on the most advanced in vivo and in vitro models, will be reported by inviting expert scientists to submit ad hoc articles.

JMHD also hope to provide researchers involved in the above-mentioned fields with a working tool for the continuous updating on probiotic, opportunistic, or pathogenic microbes, on the ways to promote, enhance or counteract microbial growth and on their interactions with biotic or abiotic surfaces.