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Medical Microbiology and Immunology (MMIM) publishes key findings on all aspects of the interrelationship between infectious agents and the immune system of their hosts. The journal´s main focus is original research work on intrinsic, innate or adaptive immune responses to viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic (protozoan and helminthic) infections and on the virulence of the respective infectious pathogens.
MMIM covers basic, translational as well as clinical research in infectious diseases and infectious disease immunology. Basic research using cell cultures, organoid, and animal models are welcome, provided that the models have a clinical correlate and address a relevant medical question.
The journal also considers manuscripts on the epidemiology of infectious diseases, including the emergence and epidemic spreading of pathogens and the development of resistance to anti-infective therapies, and on novel vaccines and other innovative measurements of prevention.
The following categories of manuscripts will not be considered for publication in MMIM:
submissions of preliminary work, of merely descriptive data sets without investigation of mechanisms or of limited global interest,
manuscripts on existing or novel anti-infective compounds, which focus on pharmaceutical or pharmacological aspects of the drugs,
manuscripts on existing or modified vaccines, unless they report on experimental or clinical efficacy studies or provide new immunological information on their mode of action,
manuscripts on the diagnostics of infectious diseases, unless they offer a novel concept to solve a pending diagnostic problem,
case reports or case series, unless they are embedded in a study that focuses on the anti-infectious immune response and/or on the virulence of a pathogen.
Non-commissioned review articles will only be accepted from authors who have a convincing track record of own publications related to the topic of the review article.

Editors-in-Chief
Volkhard A.J. Kempf (Bacteriology)
Institute of Medical Microbiology
and Infection Control
University of Frankfurt
Paul-Ehrlich-Strasse 40
60596 Frankfurt, Germany
e-mail: volkhard.kempf@kgu.de

Matthias J. Reddehase (Virology)
Institute for Virology
University Medical Center of the
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
and Research Center for Immunotherapy
Obere Zahlbacher Str. 67
55131 Mainz, Germany
e-mail: matthias.reddehase@uni-mainz.de
Christian Bogdan (Immunology)
Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene
University Hospital of Erlangen and 
Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg
Wasserturmstraße 3/5
91054 Erlangen, Germany
e-mail: christian.bogdan@uk-erlangen.de


Founding Editors
Robert Koch and Carl Flügge, 1886 


Editors 
Steven J. Ackerman, Chicago, IL, USA
Ralf Bartenschlager, Heidelberg, Germany
Stephan Becker, Marburg, Germany
Sammy Bedoui, Melbourne,VIC, Australia
Sindy Böttcher, Berlin, Germany
Dunja Bruder, Magdeburg, Germany
Margarita De Val, Madrid, Spain
Thomas Decker, Vienna, Austria
Albert Descoteaux, Laval , QC, Canada
Stefan Ehlers, Borstel, Germany
Sabine Ehrt, New York, NY, USA
John D. Fraser, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand
Alexander W. Friedrich, Groningen, The Netherlands
Gülsah Gabriel, Hamburg, Germany
Adrian Goldman, Leeds, United Kingdom
Deyin Guo, Guangzhou, PR China
Georg A. Häcker, Freiburg, Germany
Petr Hubacek, Prague, Czech Republic
Jonathan Jantsch, Regensburg, Germany
Stipan Jonjic, Rijeka, Croatia
Ulrich Kalinke, Hannover, Germany
Oliver T. Keppler, Munich, Germany
Jörg Köhl, Lübeck, Germany
Manfred Kopf, Zurich, Switzerland
Roland Lang, Erlangen, Germany
Salomé LeibundGut-Landmann, Zurich, Switzerland
Thomas Lion, Vienna, Austria
Peter Murray, Martinsried, Germany
Bastian Opitz, Berlin, Germany
Gernot G. U. Rohde, Frankfurt, Germany
Stefan Rose-John, Kiel, Germany
Bernhard Ryffel, Orleans, France
Dirk Schlüter, Magdeburg, Germany
Thomas F. Schulz, Hannover, Germany 
Roberto F. Speck, Zurich, Switzerland
Simona Stäger, Laval, QC, Canada
Steffen Stenger, Ulm, Germany
Fabienne Tacchini-Cottier, Epalinges, Switzerland
Mauro M. Teixeira, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Jordi Vila Estapé, Barcelona, Spain
Sebastian Voigt, Berlin, Germany
Takaji Wakita, Tokyo, Japan
Günter Weiss, Innsbruck, Austria
Silja Wessler, Salzburg, Austria
Ulrike Wieland,Cologne, Germany
Muhammad Hamid Zaman, Boston, USA
Christina Zielinski, Munich, Germany