About Infection and Immunity

Infection and Immunity focuses on host-pathogen interactions and encompasses a wide range of topics of interest to microbiologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, pathologists, and clinicians. Areas of interest include infections caused by pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and parasites; mechanisms of pathogenicity; interactions of virulence factors with host cells; host resistance, inflammation, and susceptibility to infection; the immunology of infectious diseases; development and evaluation of vaccines against nonviral pathogens; and the genomes of pathogenic bacteria.

Sections include:

• Instructions to Authors (January issue)
• Spotlight
• Guest Commentaries
• Minireviews
• Molecular Pathogenesis
• Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions
• Bacterial Infections
• Host Response and Inflammation
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections
• Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
• Molecular Genomics
• Genome Announcements

Monthly. 5,500 pages in 2008. Print ISSN: 0019-9567. Online ISSN: 1098-5522.

IAI has an impact factor of 3.996 according to the Institute for Scientific Information's 2007 Journal Citation Reports. It is ranked #28 by impact factor out of 119 journals in the Immunology category as well as #10 out of 50 journals in the Infectious Diseases category.

Indexed/Abstracted: Agricola, BIOSIS, Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, Current Contents, Index Medicus, EMBASE, Microbiology Abstracts, Science Citation Index, and more.