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Journal overview

Future Microbiology is a MEDLINE-indexed, peer-reviewed journal providing essential information to the research community, covering basic, translational and clinical research in microbiology (bacteriology, virology, mycology and parasitology) and the impact on human health. A wide range of invited and unsolicited articles are considered, including original research, reviews and opinion pieces, and the journal offers rapid and open access publishing options.

 Articles published in Future Microbiology  include key areas such as:

  •  The molecular basis of microbial diseases
  • Microbe–host interactions
  • Overviews highlighting optimal therapeutic and diagnostic approaches, along with potential future options
  • The use of microbes in the treatment of disease and genetic engineering
  • Summaries evaluating newly approved antimicrobial agents
  • Pharmacoeconomics and cost-benefit issues in microbiology
  • New and re-emerging microbes impacting human health
  • Microbial genome research, and the implications to higher organisms
  • Microbes and cancer
  • Epidemiologic studies and trends
  • The problem of drug resistance, and potential methods to overcome this
  • Defence against the use of microbes in bioterrorism
  • Real world evidence and outcomes research

Key advances in the field are reported and analyzed by international experts, providing an authoritative but accessible forum for this increasingly important and vast area of research.

The journal welcomes unsolicited article proposals.

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