About This Journal

Infection and Immunity (IAI) 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:

  • Spotlights
  • 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, with 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 in: AgBiotech News and Information, Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B), Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Caplus, Current Contents, EMBASE, Illustrata, Index Veterinarius, Science Citation Index Expanded, Summon, and more.