期刊名称：MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Microbial Pathogenesis
Microbial Pathogenesis publishes original contributions, mini-reviews, and notes on molecular and cellular mechanisms in infectious disease. The journal covers infectious agents of bacterial, fungal, viral, and protozoal origin, and aims for rapid publication of articles of high quality and significance in an International forum.
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Research Areas Include:
Pathogenesis
Virulence factors
Host susceptibility or resistance
Immune mechanisms
Identification, cloning, and sequencing of relevant genes
Genetic studies
Viruses, prokaryotic organisms, and protozoa |
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- BIOSIS
- Biological Abstracts
- Chemical Abstracts
- Current Contents/Life Sciences
- Genetics Abstracts
- Immunology Abstracts
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- Index Medicus
- Microbiology Abstracts
- Reference Update
- Research Alert
- SCISEARCH
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Instructions to Authors
Microbial Pathogenesis is devoted to basic mechanisms in the infectious process. The journal was founded in the belief that current methodological advances in molecular biology will be applied increasingly to biological problems including the pathogenesis of infectious disease. It is now possible to characterize completely the genome of an infectious agent and to determine which genes and proteins are responsible for the virulence, tropism, and other essential features of the organism. Likewise, the response of the host can now be understood at the level of individual molecules such as the interferons, the immunoglobulins, or the T cell receptor. The time is approaching when host genes involved in susceptibility, resistance, or immune responses will be sequenced and their functions understood in molecular terms. Thus, the molecular biology of infectious disease is fast becoming a new area of knowledge, based on current research. Microbial Pathogenesis is particularly dedicated to this new era in infectious disease research.
Pathogenesis, by its very nature, represents the interface between multiple classical disciplines, including pathology, microbiology, immunology and genetics. Contributions in any of these areas are therefore appropriate for the journal. However, the unifying theme should be elucidation of basic mechanisms, not merely a recording of descriptive observations. Another unique theme of Microbial Pathogenesis is the conviction that there are many common features in infections produced by different kinds of agents. A comparative perspective may shed light on both the general and special aspects of each infection. Therefore, the whole range of organisms from viruses to parasites, is relevant to the journal.
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Original research papers should report complete findings and include only as much introductory, review and bibliographic material as is necessary to explain the research and its relevance. Short communications (max 3 printed pages) typically would comprise one set of data contradicting or confirming a recent publication or hypothesis, but other forms will be considered.
Manuscripts (in triplicate) and all editorial correspondence should be sent either to:
for virology:
Professor Rafi Ahmed
Microbial Pathogenesis
Emory University School of Medicine
G-211 Rollins Research Building
Atlanta, GA 30322
USA
Tel 404 727 3571
Fax 404 727 3722
or for bacteria and fungi:
Professor P. Helena Makela
Microbial Pathogenesis
National Public Health Institute
Mannerheimintie 166, SF--00300 Helsinki
Finland
Tel 358 (9) 4744 8235
Fax 358 (9) 4744 8675
e-mail pirjo.makela@ktl.fi
or for parasitology to:
Dr Ronald Blanton
Microbial Pathogenesis
Division of Geographic Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
2109 Adelbert Road
Cleveland, OH 44106-4983
USA
Tel 216 368 4820
Fax 216 368 4825
e-mail reb6@po.cwru.edu
or to:
Professor Shigeyuki Hamada
Microbial Pathogenesis
Department of Oral Microbiology
Faculty of Dentistry
Osaka Univerity
1-8 Yamadaoka, Suita-Osaka 565-0871
Japan
Tel/Fax 816 6878 4755
The submission of a manuscript will be taken to imply that the material is original and has not been submitted in equivalent form for publication elsewhere. Submission of a manuscript is taken to imply that all the named authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the paper, that all who are listed as providers of personal communication have agreed to their inclusion and that all requisite permissions for the use of material from previously published sources or made available electronically, are supplied with the final submission. When a submitted manuscript is closely related to papers that are in press or have been submitted elsewhere, it will be considered for publication only after copies of these papers also have been provided. To speed handling, give your telephone, fax and/or telex number on the front page, together with the complete address for correspondence.
Form of Manuscripts
These guidelines are in accordance with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. (The complete document is available in the June 12 1982 issue of the British Medical Journal and the June 1982 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.) Manuscripts must be written in the English Language. Manuscripts must be typed, double spaced on one side of good quality white paper with at least 25mm margins on all sides. All pages should be numbered in sequence beginning with the title page. Submit the original and two copies of all elements arranged in the following order:
Title Page This should contain an informative title, the names and affiliations of authors, the institute at which the work was carried out, the name, address, telephone number and telex number for correspondence and a short title.
Abstract This should be a summary of the entire work and include statements of the problem, methods of study, results and conclusions, and should not exceed 200 words.
Key Words Authors should supply a list of up to six key words that will adequately index the subject matter of their article, and be published on the first page of the article.
Text This should follow the format: Introduction, Results, Discussion and Conclusions, Materials and Methods, Acknowledgements and References.
References Number references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in text, tables and legends by arabic numerals (in parentheses). References cited only in tables or in legends to figures should be numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first identification in the text of the particular table or illustration. Unpublished results (including articles submitted for publication) or personal communications should be cited as such within the text. Personal communications should be substantiated by a letter of permission. Abstracts of papers presented at meetings may not be cited. At the end of the article, the full list of references should give the name and initials of all authors, unless there are more than six, when only the first three should be given, followed by et al. The authors' names are followed by the title of the article; the title of the journal abbreviated according to the style of Index Medicus (see List of Journals Indexed, printed annually in the January issue of Index Medicus); the year of publication: the volume number and the first and last page numbers. Titles of books should be followed by the place of publication, the publisher, the year and the relevant page(s). Examples of correct forms of reference are given below.
(a) Journals: Heritage, J, Chesters PM, McCance DJ. The persistence of papovirus BK DNA sequences in normal human renal tissue. J Med Virol 1982; 8: 143-50.
(b) Books: Mims CA. The pathogenesis of infectious disease, 2nd edn. London: Academic Press, 1982: pages cited.
(c) Chapter in Books: Weinstwin L, Swartz MN. Pathogenic properties of invading microorganisms . In: Sodeman WA Jr, Sodeman WA, eds. Pathologic physiology; mechanisms of disease. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1974: 457--72.
Figures and Tables
Number all figures consecutively with Arabic numerals and give each one a descriptive legend. All illustrations should be in finished form suitable for reproduction. Figures should be planned to fit the proportion of the printed page. Photographs should be glossy prints with strong contrasts, and the magnification should be indicated by a scale. Photographs should be cropped to eliminate background materials so that reproduction might be possible without reduction. Grouping of photographs should be indicated. The Publisher will not charge authors for colour figures, where its use is integral to useful illustration of the data.
Tables should be typed on separate pages, numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, and collected at the end of the manuscript. All tables must have descriptive headings and should be understandable without reference to the text.
Nomenclature of Microorganisms
Binomials should be used in accordance with the International Rules of Nomenclature. Binomials should be underlined in the typewritten copy . A specific name should not be used without an accompanying capitalised generic name. The generic name for each species should be written in full where it occurs first in the text and again in the summary.
Genetic Nomenclature
Use standard genetic nomenclature in accordance with the recommendations of Demeric et al. (Genetics 1966; 54: 61-76 or J Gen Microbiol 1968; 50: 1-14) and Bachmann and Low (Microbial Rev 1980;44:1-56) for bacteria, Novick et al. (Bact Rev 1976; 40: 168-89, Low (Bact Rev 1972; 36: 587-607), Campbell et al (Gene 1979; 5:197-206 for plasmids and transposons, and Roberts (Nucleic Acids Res 1981; 9: r75-r96 for restriction enzymes and DNA fragments. Mutant and plasmid numbers as well as DNA sequences should be registered at the corresponding registry whenever such has been established (E. coli Genetic Stock Center, Yale University School of Medicine, P.O.Box 333, New Haven, CT 06510, U.S.A.: Salmonella Genetic Stock Center, Department of Biology , University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4; for Staphylococcus aureus: Peter & Pattee, Department of Medical Microbiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A.; information of nucleic acid sequence data banks from Walter Goad, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O.Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A.).
Units of Measurements The use of SI units is recommended. Concentrations should be expressed as molar (M) or as e.g. moles or mg per ml (mol/ml or mg/ml), 'molecular weights' can be expressed either as molecular mass (e.g. 30 000 daltons or 30 kDa) or relative molecular mass (e.g. Mr = 30 000).
Abbreviations
Except for units of measurement, abbreviations are discouraged. Consult the Council of Biology Editors Style Manual (Fifth edition. Bethesda, MD: Council of Biology Editors, 1983) for lists of standard abbreviations. The first time an abbreviation appears it should be preceded by the words for which it stands.
Distribution of Material
Publication of a research article in Microbial Pathogenesis is taken to imply that the authors are prepared then to distribute freely to interested academic researchers for their own use any clone (of cells of DNA of antibodies) used in the experiments that have been reported.
Copyright
Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if it is accepted for publication, copyright of the article, including the right to reproduce the article in all forms and media, shall be assigned exclusively to Academic Press. The Copyright Transfer Agreement, which may be copied from the journal or found on the journal homepage, should be signed by the appropriate person(s) and should accompany tje original submission of the manuscript to the journal. The transfer of copyright does not take effect until the manuscript is accepted.
Offprints
Authors will receive 50 offprints free of charge; further offprints may be ordered at proof stage.
Page Charges
There will be no page changes for manuscripts submitted to Microbial Pathogenesis .
Manuscript Submission on Disk
When supplying the final version of your article please include, if possible, a disk of your manuscript prepared on PC-compatible or Apple Macintosh computers, along with three copies of the hard copy print-out. 5 1/4" or 3 1/2" sized disks and most work processing packages are acceptable, although a version of WordPerfect or Microsoft Windows would be preferred.
Please follow these guidelines carefully:
- Include an ASCII version on the disk, together with the word processed version, if possible.
- Ensure that the files are not saved as read only.
- Manuscripts prepared on disk must be accompanied by three hard copies, including all figures, printed with double spacing. These will be used if setting from the disk proves impracticable.
- Ensure the final version of the hard copy and the file are the same. It is the authors' responsibility to ensure complete compatibility. If there are any differences the hard copy will be used.
- The directions for preparing the paper in the style of the journal as set out in the Instructions to Authors must be followed. Please consult the current issue of Microbial Pathogenesis, especially for the style of references. The manuscript should be arranged as follows: Title; Author; Addresses; Running heads; Abstract; Key Words; Introduction; Results; Discussion; Material and Methods; Acknowledgements; References; Tables; Figure legends. Do not include figures in the text; these should be supplied separately.
- The operating system and the work processing software used to produce the article should be noted on the disk (e.g. DOS/WordPerfect), as well as all file names. If UNIS, method of extraction should also be noted.
- The disk/tape should be labelled with the author name(s), hardware and software used to generate the disk file.
- Do not include copyright material, e.g. wordprocessing software or operating system files on the disk as this can create difficulties with Customs clearance.
- Package floppy disks in such a way as to avoid possible damage in the post.
Additional points to note:
- Use two carriage returns to end headings and paragraphs.
- Type text without end of line justification hyphenation, except for compound words.
- Do not use lower case letter 'l' (el) for '1' (one) or letter 'O' for '0' (zero). (They have different typesetting values.)
- Mathematics will usually be typeset from the hard copy. However, if possible avoid using the letter 'x' or '*' for 'x' (multiplication sign) and hyphen (-) for '-' (minus) .
- Footnotes, tables and figure captions should be keyed and saved in a separate file from the main text for the manuscript.
- However, please ensure clear hard copies are supplied as they will almost certainly be typeset from the hard copy.
- Be consistent with punctuation and only insert a single space between words after punctuation (including full stops).
- Please include a list of any special characters you have used, e.g. Greek, maths.
Illustrations Submitted on Disk
Authors' illustrations should also, if possible, be supplied as both hard copy and electronic files. Figures drawn using Aldus Freehand (Apple Macintosh) and saved as Encapsulated PostScript files (EPS) are preferred and should be supplied on a separate disk.
Editorial Board
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- Editors-in-Chief:
- Prof. P.H. Makela, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Prof. R. Ahmed, Emory University School of Medicine, Georgia, USA
Dr. R. Blanton, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA
- Associate Editors:
Prof. C. Svanberg, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Prof. A. Rickinson, Cancer Research Campaign Laboratories, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Prof. T. Nilsen, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA
- Japanese Editor:
Prof. S. Hamada, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Editorial Board
R. Anders, Melbourne, Australia
R.M. Anderson, Oxford, United Kingdom
S. Baron, Galveston, USA
A.D. Befus, Alberta, Canada
D.E. Briles, Birmingham, USA
A. Burny, Rhode-Saint-Genese, Belgium
A. Capron, Lille, France
B. Cheseboro, Hamilton, USA
F. Chisari, La Jolla, USA
R. Crowell, Philadelphia, USA
C. Czuprinski, Madison, USA
S. Dales, London, Canada
R.A. Daynes, Salt Lake City, USA
P. Doherty, Memphis, USA
E. Domingo, Manila, Philippines
D. Griffin, Baltimore, USA
A. Haase, Minnesota, USA
O. Haller, Freiburg, Germany
S. Hamada, Osaka, Japan
M. Hatanaka, Kyoto, Japan
W.T. Hockmeyer, Rochester, USA
J. Holmgren, Gothenburg, Sweden
J. Hope, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
C. Hormaeche, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
T. Hovi, Helsinki, Finland
S. James, Bethesda, USA
S.H.E. Kaufmann, Berlin, Germany
J.W. Kazura, Cleveland, USA
S. Kojima, Tokyo, Japan
U. Koszinowski, Ulm, Germany
P.T. LoVerde, Buffalo, USA
D.B. Lowrie, London, United Kingdom
A.A.F. Maurelli, Bethesda, USA
Z.A. McGee, Salt Lake City, USA
H.J.E.Th. Meuwissen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
T. Minagawa, Sapporo, Japan
M. Mitsuyama, Niigata, Japan
E.R. Moxon, Oxford, United Kingdom
F. Murphy, Davis, USA
O. Narayan, Baltimore, USA
N. Nathanson, Philadelphia, USA
A.D. O'Brien, Bethesda, USA
G. Orth, Paris, France
J.I. Ravdin, Cleveland, USA
P.J. Sansonetti, Paris, France
P.J. Southern, Minneapolis, USA
J.G. Stevens, Los Angeles, USA
Y. Takeda, Tokyo, Japan
K. Timmis, Braunschweig, Germany
K.L. Tyler, Denver, USA
H. Watanabe, Tokyo, Japan
R. Webster, Memphis, USA
E. Wimmer, Stony Brook, USA
J.S. Youngner, Pittsburgh, USA
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