Infection and Immunity

Scope

Infection and Immunity® (IAI) provides new insights into the interactions between bacteria, fungi, and parasites and their hosts. Specific areas of interest include host cellular and immune response to microbes, molecular mechanisms of action of beneficial microbes or host-associated microbial communities, microbial pathogenesis, virulence factors, experimental models of infection, host resistance or susceptibility, and the generation of innate and adaptive immune responses. IAI will not consider papers that are preliminary, purely descriptive, or case studies. Clinical studies may be suitable for consideration by IAI if they provide novel insights into infectious disease pathogenesis or noncommunicable diseases associated with microbiota imbalances. IAI welcomes studies of the microbiome that relate to host-microbe interactions. Papers describing methodology are not encouraged; only under unusual circumstances will they be considered for publication.