About Infection and Immunity

Infection and Immunity covers a broad range of topics important to microbiologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, pathologists, and clinicians. Areas of interest include infections caused by pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and parasites; mechanisms of pathogenicity and virulence factors such as toxins and microbial surface structures; factors involved in host resistance, inflammation, and susceptibility to infection; immunology of microbial infection; development and evaluation of vaccines against pathogens; molecular genomics dealing with information from the genomes of pathogenic and nonpathogenic 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 4.004 according to the Institute for Scientific Information's 2006 Journal Citation Reports. It is ranked #8 by impact factor out of 43 journals in the Infectious Diseases category as well as #27 out of 117 journals in the Immunology category.

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