Editorial Team
Editor in Chief
Salvatore Rubino, Università degli Studi di Sassari, ItalySenior Editor
Aysegul Karahasan Yagci, Marmara University,Department of Clinical Microbiology,Istanbul, TurkeyMohammed N Al-Ahdal, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Saudi Arabia
Omar Bagasra, Claflin University Orangeburg, United States
Piero Cappuccinelli, DBC, Clinical Microbiology. Sassari University, Italy and Carlo Urbani Centre, HCMP, Hue University, Vietnam
John David Clemens, International Vaccine Institute, Korea, Republic Of
Fazal Karim Dar, Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain
David J. Kelvin, International Inst. of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China
Salih Hosoglu, Dicle University Hospital,Diyarbakir, Turkey
Gu Jiang, Shantou University Medical College, China
Peter Robert Mason, BRTI, Harare, Zimbabwe
Fawza Monem, Damascus University, Syrian Arab Republic
Iruka N Okeke, Haverford College, United States
Abiola Catherine Senok, College of Medicine, AlFaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
John Wain, Laboratory for Gastrointestinal Pathogens, HPA, Colindale, United Kingdom
Jan C. Wilschut, University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
Guan Yi, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Editor
Martin Antonio, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, GambiaLela Bakanidze, NCDC Georgia, Georgia
Jesus F. Bermejo-Martin, Unidad de Investigación en Infección e Inmunidad, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, National Centre of Influenza,Valladolid, Spain
Devon Brewer, Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, United States
Mark Cameron, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, United States
John David Klena, US CDC, United States
Phyllis Della-Latta, Columbia Univ Med Ctr, NewYork Presbyterian Hosp, United States
Rajni Gaind, VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi.India, India
Jorg Heukelbach, Department of Community Health, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, Brazil
Danilo Lo Fo Wong, World Health Organization, Denmark
Behrouz Nikbin, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Dept. of Immunology, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Infection and Immunity Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda and Office of Scientific Research, Cooperativa de Entidades de Salud de Risaralda (COODESURIS), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
Luís Távora Tavira, Centre for Malaria & Tropical Diseases - IHMT, Lisboa, Portugal
Athanassios Tsakris, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece
Associate Editor
Denis Karuhize Byarugaba, Makerere University, Kampala, UgandaCheryl Cameron, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, United States
Maria Miranda Drogari-Apiranthitou, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece
Amber Farooqui, China
Patrick John Kelly, Ross University Veterinary School, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Alyson Ann Kelvin, IDR, Canada
Krystal Lee, Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong
Daniel Limonta, Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine, Cuba
Thomas Rowe, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States
Nijaz Tihic, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Department of Microbiology, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Thang Van Vo, Hue college of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue, Viet Nam
Dominik Zenner, Centre for Infection, HPA, London UK, United Kingdom
Technical Editor
Nikki Ann Kelvin, JIDCAssistant to the Editor in Chief
Giustina Casu, ItalyAssistant to the Technical Editor
Joey Kelvin, ChinaDominique China, Canada
Mark David Dickson, Canada
Amanda Li, China
Emily Hiltz, Canada
Lisa M. Lambert, Canada
Eva Molak, Canada
Scientific Editor
Nadia Ahmod, Health Protection Agency, United KingdomEve Boakes, United Kingdom
Marie Anne Chattaway, HPA, colindale, United Kingdom
Daniela Chessa, Universita' di Sassari, Italy
Richard C Huard, Columbia Univ Med Ctr, NewYork Presbyterian Hosp, United States
Adnan Khan, Karachi University, Pakistan
Gemma C Langridge, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
Alicia San José, Nurse, Spain
Helena MB Seth-Smith, Sanger Institute
Chengming Wang, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Creative Director
Jeff CoombsWebmaster / Site administrator
Marco Scano, ItalyLinguistic Division
Brian Larry Freeman, Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine, United StatesGemma C Langridge, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
Julien Nunes, Claflin University, United States
Donald Gene Pace, Claflin University, United States
Levi Nelson Pace, University of Utah, United States
Sarah Pace, Claflin University, United States
Wilson D Pace, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Zhen Zhao, China
Editorial Board
Yadav Prasad Joshi, National Integreated College, Dillibazar, Kathmandu, Nepal, NepalDeniz Gur, Clinical Microbiologist, Turkey
Ricardo Correa, ICGES, Panama
Alicia Ponte Sucre, Unversidad central de Venezuela, Venezuela
Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Saudi Aramco Medical Services organization, Saudi Arabia
Vicente Sperb Antonello, Department of Infection Control of Hospital Fêmina, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Brazil
Tulsi Dass Chugh, senior consultant,BLK memorial hospital,5 pusa road,New Delhi110005, India
Celso José Bruno Oliveira, Center for Agrarian Sciences - Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil, Brazil
Fulgence Nzabintwali, LNR, Kigali, Rwanda, Rwanda
Rajesh Nayak, U.S.Food and Drug Administration,National Center for Toxicological Research,Jefferson, United States
Seyed Davar Siadat, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
Shahana Urooj Kazmi, Department of Microbiology - University of Karachi, Pakistan
Marcelo Ferreira, Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Brazil
Nigel Cook, Food and Environment Research Institute,Sand Hutton,York,, United Kingdom
Jean-Philippe François Chippaux, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France
Grant McFadden, University of Florida, United States
Guadalupe Ortega-Pierres, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados IPN, Mexico
Bodh Raj Panhotra, Dept Medical Microbiology,SBS Postgraduate Inst Biomedical Sci.& Res, India
Giovanni Fadda, Universita' Cattolica, Roma, Italy
Rosina Claudia Krecek, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Norma Binsztein, Dept Bacteriology,National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jose Gutierrez, Departamento de Microbiología de la Facultad de Medicina de Granada, Spain
David Rodríguez-Lázaro
Mohammed Timinouni, Institut Pasteur Maroc, Morocco
Ibrahim Taher, Microbiology, Saudi Arabia
Christopher M Parry, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Tibor Pal, Department of Medical Microbiology, FMHS,UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
George Farah Araj, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon
Kamal Kishore, Fiji School of Medicine, Suva, Fiji
Mustafa Altindis, Afyon Kocatepe University School of Medicine Dept of Microbiology, Turkey
Yoshio Yamaoka, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
Violeta Trinidad Pardío, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
Tamer Ahmad Essawi, Birzeit University, Palestinian Territory, Occupied
Renato L. Santos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Humberto Guerra, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru
Moustafa Ahmed El-Shenawy, National Research Center, Dokki-Cairo, Egypt
Amy Gassama Sow, Pasteur Institute, Dakar, Senegal
Javier Garaizar, Dept. Immunol., Microbiol, and Parasitol., Faculty of Pharmacy, University of the Basque Cuntry, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Roy D Sleator, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Adrian Canizalez-Roman, Faculty of Medicina and The Sinaloa State Public Health Laboratory, Mexico
Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Children hospital-Egypt, Egypt
Nora Cardona-Castro, Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical - Universidad CES,Sabaneta, Antioquia, Colombia
Vincent O. Rotimi, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University,Kuwait City, Kuwait
Gerardo E. González-Rocha, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
Guillermo Daniel Alonso, INGEBI (UBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Raffaele Zarrilli, Department of Preventive Medical Sciences University of Naples, Italy
Shamala Devi Sekaran, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Jawhar Gharbi, University of Monastir, Tunisia
Oguz Karabay, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Dept. Infectious Diseases & Clinical Microbiology, Bolu, Turkey
Maria Braoudaki, First department of Pediatrics, University of Athens, Greece
An Van Le, Department of medical microbiology, Hue College of medicine and Pharmacy, Viet Nam
