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Potential implications of SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: where are we going from now?
Professor Carlo Torti, Section Editor for BMC Infectious Diseases, discusses the challenges Africa faces in controlling the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in this Editorial.
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19
Find a selection of articles published across Springer Nature, as well as additional commentary and books relevant to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.
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Special Issue: Antimicrobial Resistance
BMC Infectious Diseases is pleased to announce the Antimicrobial Resistance special issue. This series includes a diverse range of AMR studies from around the globe, investigating the detection and surveillance of AMR, from the lab bench to hospital bed.
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Ebola in Focus
Find a selection of recent research published across Springer Nature, as well as additional commentary on Ebola and relevant books.
Read MoreSpecial 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.
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Vascular function and cardiovascular risk in a HIV infected and HIV free cohort of African ancestry: baseline profile, rationale and methods of the longitudinal EndoAfrica-NWU study
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Neurologic alterations in an HIV adult patient with pertussis: a case report
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Identification of Enterococcus faecalis in a patient with urinary-tract infection based on metagenomic next-generation sequencing: a case report
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Tuberculin skin test conversion in patients under treatment with anti-tumor necrotizing factor alpha agents
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Recognition of aerosol transmission of infectious agents: a commentary
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How long do nosocomial pathogens persist on inanimate surfaces? A systematic review
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Timing of progression from Chlamydia trachomatisinfection to pelvic inflammatory disease: a mathematical modelling study
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Estimates of the reproduction number for seasonal, pandemic, and zoonotic influenza: a systematic review of the literature
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Deposition of respiratory virus pathogens on frequently touched surfaces at airports
Aims and scope
BMC Infectious Diseases is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of infectious and sexually transmitted diseases in humans, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.
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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.
We are Recruiting New Associate Editors
We are recruiting new Associate Editors to join our international editorial board, helping to provide expertise on a wide range of different subject disciplines.
Editor
- Leanne Archer, BMC London
Manuscript Editor
- Oliver Cocks, BMC London
Assistant Editor
- Stuart Weir, BMC London
Section Editors
- Stefan Baral, Johns Hopkins University
- Jean-Claude Desenclos, Institut de Veille Sanitaire
- Susanna Esposito, University of Milan
- Jorge Garbino, University Hospitals Geneva
- Edward Graviss, Houston Methodist
- Ivan FN Hung, University of Hong Kong
- Eyal Oren, University of Arizona
- Holly Seale, University of New South Wales
- Julian Tang, University Hospitals of Leicester
- Joseph Tucker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Kelvin To, University of Hong Kong
- Carlo Torti, University 'Magna Graecia'
- Honorine Ward, Tufts Medical Center
- Laith Yakob, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Carlo Torti, Section Editor
Prof. Carlo Torti graduated in Medicine from the University of Pavia in 1994. He obtained his specialty in Infectious Diseases in 2000 from the University of Brescia where he worked as Consultant Physician and Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases from 2001 to 2012. He was appointed Director of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit at the University “Magna Graecia” (UMG) in Catanzaro in 2012. He is Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases in the same University. His main areas of interests are: general Infectious Diseases, viro-immunological and clinical outcomes of antiretroviral treatment, HIV drug resistance, and co-infection of HIV with hepatitis viruses.
Joseph Tucker, Section Editor
Dr. Joseph D. Tucker is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an infectious diseases physician with a focus on sexually transmitted infections and has a special interest in crowdsourcing as a tool for improving public health. He has been a BMC Infectious Diseases Section Editor since 2016.
In memoriam: Professor Andrea De Luca (1964-2019)
It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of Prof Andrea De Luca, who tragically passed away on February 4th 2019 in a car accident. Prof De Luca, who was based at the University of Siena, Italy, dedicated many years of his life to clinical research on the treatment of HIV and hepatitis, HIV drug resistance, the toxicity of antiretrovirals as well as the impact of hepatitis virus co-infections.
As a valued member of our editorial board, his death is a tremendous loss to our journal, but more importantly to the field of HIV research, where his efforts and contributions will live on.
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