BMC Infectious Diseases

Call for Papers: Contribution of climate change to the spread of infectious diseases

This cross-journal collection brings together in one place articles outlining diseases (and their vectors) that are likely to spread or are already spreading across borders due to the effects of climate change. The impact of policy implementation or interventions designed to contain the spread infectious disease, and studies that could inform future global policy or practical solutions are very much welcome.

Submissions are now open and the deadline is the 31st of May 2020. A full list of participating journals can be found following the link above. 

Special Issue: The airborne microbiome - implications for aerosol transmission and infection control

BMC Infectious Diseases is delighted to announce the release of The airborne microbiome - implications for aerosol transmission and infection control. This special issue aims to explore and characterise the airborne microbiome in different environments and discusses possible interventions to control the transmission of airborne pathogens. 

Special Issue: Human rights as social and structural drivers of sexually transmitted infections

BMC Infectious Diseases is delighted to announce the release of Human rights as social and structural drivers of sexually transmitted infections. This special issue is a collaboration between BMC Infectious Diseases and BMC International Health and Human Rights and focuses on highlighting novel studies characterizing human rights infringements as structural determinants of sexually transmitted infections. 

To learn more about this collection, please read our Editorial. 

Influenza - 100 years on

To mark the 100 year anniversary of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, which infected 1/5th of the world's population and claimed the lives of nearly 50 million people, we have put together a collection of our most highly accessed papers of 2018-2019 so far.

Do medical masks really protect against infection?

In this paper by Dr Chughtai et al. the authors analyse the presence of viruses on the outer surface of medical masks worn by healthcare workers  and show that prolonged use may lead to self-contamination.

Looking back on the Influenza pandemic of 1918-1919

100 years on from the influenza pandemic that claimed more than 37 million lives, Dr Michaela Nickol and Dr Jason Kindrachuk (Associate Editor at BMC Infectious Diseases)  reflect upon its emergence at the time, its predilection for the young and healthy  and our current level of preparedness for a future pandemic.