BMC Infectious Diseases

Announcing In Review - now available in BMC Infectious Diseases

BMC Infectious Diseases is launching In Review, a new option that provides authors with on-demand information on the status of their manuscript, enables them to share their work with funders and their research community, and allows their colleagues to comment and collaborate - all whilst their manuscript is under review.

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.

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.

Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of pediatric Ebola patients

In this paper by Dr Kangbai et al. the authors explore both epidemiological and clinical factors associated with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) as well as  significant predictors for paediatric EVD treatment outcome.