Editorial Team

* Starred names are JIDC Founders

Editor in Chief

Salvatore Rubino *, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Senior Editors

Mohammed N Al-Ahdal, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Saudi Arabia

Mark Cameron, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, United States

Piero Cappuccinelli *, DBC, Clinical Microbiology. Sassari University, Italy and Carlo Urbani Centre, HCMP, Hue University, Vietnam

Salih Hosoglu, Tishk International University, Erbil, Iraq, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

David J. Kelvin *, International Inst. of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Peter Mason † *, Zimbabwe

Fawza Monem, Damascus University, Syrian Arab Republic

Iruka N. Okeke, Haverford College, United States

Abiola C. Senok, College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, EAU

Athanassios Tsakris, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece

John Wain *,  Quadram Institute Bioscience and University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Aysegul Karahasan Yagci, Marmara University, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Istanbul, Turkey

Guan Yi, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Editors

Vicente Sperb Antonello, Department of Prevention and Infection Control Hospital Fêmina, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Maria D Appleman, Microbial Research Laboratory, Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA

Lela Bakanidze, NCDC Georgia, Georgia

Aleksandra Barac, Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade

Carlo Contini, University of Ferrara, Italy

Tuba Dal,  Dr Abdurrahman Yurtaslan Ankara Oncology Hospital, Yildirim Beyazit University School of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, Ankara, Turkey

Karapet Davtyan°, Data and Digital Health unite of Division of Country Health Policies and Systems, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark

Phyllis Della-Latta, Columbia Univ Med Ctr, NewYork Presbyterian Hosp, United States

Pablo Diaz, Department of Animal Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain

Rajni Gaind, VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi.India, India

Javier Garaizar, Dept. Immunol., Microbiol, and Parasitol., Faculty of Pharmacy, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Wani Gunardi, Department of MicrobiologyFaculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Krida Wacana Christian University, Jakarta-Indonesia

Jorg Heukelbach, Department of Community Health, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, Brazil

Alyson Ann Kelvin, Department of Pediatrics, IWK Health Centre and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Newton Isaac Kumwenda, Blantyre Health Research and Training Trust, Blantyre, Malawi

Liping Li, Department of Pathology, Roberwood Johnson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Alberto Enrico Maraolo, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples II, Naples, Italy

Lubomira Nikolaeva-Glomb, The National Reference Laboratory of Enteroviruses, Department of Virology, National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria

Mario Poljak, Laboratory for Molecular Microbiology and Slovenian HIV/AIDS Reference Centre, Unversity of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Alicia Ponte-Sucre, Laboratorio de Fisiología Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

Edmond Puca, Department of Infectious Disease, UHC "Mother Teresa", Tirana, Albania

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia

Tugba Sari, Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Denizli, Turkey

Laidon Shapo, Slough Borough Council, London, United Kingdom

Pablo Zunino, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable (IIBCE), Montevideo, Uruguay

Associate Editors

Erjona Abazaj,     Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania

Kabiru Olusegun Akinyemi, Department of Microbiology, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos , Nigeria

Jurica Arapovic, School of Medicine, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Roberta Astorri, Department of Mental Health and Public Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Campania L. Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy 

Myo Nyein Aung, Department of Global Health Research, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

Ammar Ayachi, Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology, Veterinary Department, Batna University, Algeria

Ana Banko, Virology Department, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Casandra Bulescu, Victor Babes Clinical Hospital of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Bucharest, Romania

Iva Butic, University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia

Cheryl Cameron, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, United States

Hayk Davtyan, Tuberculosis Research and Prevention Center, Yerevan, Armenia

Miranda Drogari-Apiranthitou, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece

Chiara Fanelli, Intensive Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, Italy.

Márió Gajdács, Albert Szent-Györgyi Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Hungary

Laura Garza-Moreno, Department of Animal Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Ayse Semra Gureser,  Hitit University Faculty of Medicince, Department of Medical Microbiology, Corum, Turkey

Inaya Hajj Hussein, Oakland University William Beaumont (OUWB) School of Medicine, Department of Foundational Medical Studies, Rochester, USA

Caroline Jarvis, Quadram Institute Bioscience and University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Fatjona Kamberi, Scientific Research Center for Public Health, University of Vlore: "Ismail Qemali”, Vlore, Albania 

Kewal Krishan, Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, India

Antonio Mastroianni, Infectious & Tropical Diseases Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera di Cosenza, "Annunziata" Hub Hospital, Cosenza, Italy.

Maria Mazzitelli, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences,
Unit of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy

Martina Maritati, Dipartimento di Medicina Traslazionale, Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Yusuf Emre Ozdemir, Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Marina Pekmezovic, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knoell-Institute, Dept. Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Jena, Germany 

Dimitri Poddighe, College of Health Sciences – VinUniversity, Hanoi,Vietnam

Silvia Preziuso, University of Camerino, Italy

Buket Erturk Sengel, Marmara University School of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease and Clinical Microbiology, Istanbul, Turkey

Muhammad Sohail, Department of Microbiology, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

Tijana Stajner,Institue for Medical Research, National institute of Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia 

Anja Šterbenc, Laboratory for Molecular Microbiology and Slovenian HIV/AIDS Reference Centre, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Peter Seah Keng Tok, Institute for Clinical Research, National Institutes of Health, Selangor, Malaysia 

 

°Institutional affiliation is provided for identification purposes only and does not constitute institutional endorsement

Editorial Board

Lorena Abadia-Patino, IIBCAUDO, Venezuela

Sojan Abraham, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, USA

Ishag Adam, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Sudan, Sudan

Guillermo Daniel Alonso, INGEBI (UBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nataša Andrijašević, University Hospital for Infectious Disease Dr. Fran Mihaljević, Zagreb, Croatia

Martin Antonio, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Gambia

Dhary Alewy Almashhadany, Knowledge University , College of Science, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Erbil, Kurdistan region , Iraq

Mustafa Altindis, Sakarya University, School of Medicine, Dept of Clinical Virology and Microbiology, Sakarya, Turkey

Roberta Anzivino, UOC Otorinolaringoiatria, Ospedale Di Venere - San Paolo, ASL Bari, Sensorineural Department, Bari, Italy

George Farah Araj, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon

Omar Bagasra, Claflin University Orangeburg, United States

Jesus F. Bermejo-Martin, Unidad de Investigación en Infección e Inmunidad, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, National Centre of Influenza,Valladolid, Spain

Maria Braoudaki, First Department of Pediatrics, University of Athens, Greece

Denis Karuhize Byarugaba, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Adrian Canizalez-Roman, Faculty of Medicine and The Sinaloa State Public Health Laboratory, Mexico

Nora Cardona-Castro, Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical - Universidad CES,Sabaneta, Antioquia, Colombia

Muge Cevik, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Marie Anne Chattaway, Gastrointestinal Bacteria Reference Unit (GBRU), Microbiology Services, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom

Jean-Philippe François Chippaux, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France

Chao Chen, Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA

Ricardo Correa, ICGES, Panama

Nigel Cook, Food and Environment Research Institute, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom

Vitor Duque, Serviço de Infecciosas. Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, EPE. Portugal

Tamer Ahmad Essawi, Birzeit University, Palestinian Territory, Occupied

Giovanni Fadda, Pavia, Italy

Bernardino Fantini,  Geneva, Switzerland

Marcelo Ferreira, Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Brazil

Vito Fiore, Tropical and Infectious Diseases Unit, University of Sassari, Italy

Deniz Gur, Turkey

José Gutiérrez-Fernández, Microbiology Area. Hospital Virgen de las Nieves-University of Granada, Spain

Rana Habeeb, Department of Medical Sciences and Biology, International University of Science and Technology, Damascus, Syria

Carine Leite, Departamento de Gastroenterologia e Esdoscopia, Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

Daniel Limonta, University of Alberta, Department of Cell Biology, Edmonton, AB, Canada 

Yadav Prasad Joshi, Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, Sungkyunkawn University, South Korea

Shahana Urooj Kazmi, Department of Microbiology, University of Karachi, Pakistan

Kamal Kishore, Fiji School of Medicine, Suva, Fiji

Aleksandar Masic, Vetrepharm Research Inc., London, Ontario, Canada

Vittorio Mazzarello, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Fakry F. Mohamed, Department of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt

Paola Molicotti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Universita degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Ziad Nasr, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Practice, College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Qatar

Rogelio Navarrete Castro, Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Ángeles Metropolitano. Centro de Atención y Capacitación en Enfermedades Infecciosas S.C. CCIN, México.

Behrouz Nikbin, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Dept. of Immunology, Iran, Islam

Fulgence Nzabintwali, LNR, Kigali, Rwanda, Rwanda

Chinyere Okoro, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom

Celso José Bruno Oliveira, Center for Agrarian Sciences - Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil, Brazil

David SY Ong, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), The Netherlands

Guadalupe Ortega-Pierres, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados IPN, Mexico

Bianca Paglietti, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Bodh Raj Panhotra, Dept Medical Microbiology, SBS Postgraduate Inst Biomedical Sci.& Res, India

Violeta Trinidad Pardío, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico

Christopher M Parry, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Flor Pujol, Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, CMBC, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela

Paola Rappelli, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Italy

Albiona Rashiti - Bytyçi, Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo, Pristina, Kosovo 

Davide Rizzo, University of Sassari, Italy 

David Rodríguez-Lázaro, Instituto Tecnologico Agrario de Castilla y Leon , (ITACYL). Laboratorio de Biologia Molecular, Valladolid, Spain

Vincent O. Rotimi, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Giuseppina Sanna, Department of Biomedical Science, Section of Microbiology and Virology, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Renato L. Santos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Moustafa Ahmed El-Shenawy, National Research Center, Dokki-Cairo, Egypt

Nishant Sharma, New Jersey Medical School, Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Saudi Aramco Medical Services organization, Saudi Arabia

Nijaz Tihic, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Department of Microbiology, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mohammed Timinouni, Institut Pasteur Maroc, Morocco

Danielle Troppens, Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, Germany

Thang Van Vo, Hue College of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue, Viet Nam

Petar Velikov, Infectious Disease Hospital "Prof. Ivan Kirov", Sofia and Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Gianpaolo Vidili, Dipartimento di Medicina, Chirurgia e Farmacia, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Darinka Vuckovic, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Yoshio Yamaoka, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Children Hospital, Egypt

Lifei Yang, Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA, United States

Roberto Zenteno, Instituto de Salud Publica, Universisad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Ver., Mexico

Technical Editor

Gabriele Carenti, Marseille, France

Iside Casu, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Matthew Gavino Donadu, Sassari, Italy

Sonali Mookerjee, India

Niyati Naudiyal, India

Aidan C Parte, USA

IT Department

Marco Scano, Italy

Billing Department

Giustina Casu, Italy

Giovanni Ghi, Italy