Infection

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The primary aim of Infection is to be a forum for the presentation and discussion of clinically relevant information on infectious diseases for readers and contributors from all over the world. Articles deal with etiology pathogenesis diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases in the outpatient as well as in the inpatient setting. Public health -issues of local regional or international importance related to infectious diseases are featured as well as progress and -problems in hospital epidemiology. The main contents of the journal include original articles describing results of research projects brief reports on new observations that enhance the knowledge of clinicians and state-of-the-art reviews on topics which are relevant to physicians diagnosing or treating infectious diseases. Case reports describing new infectious etiologies or clinical manifestations are also welcome. Finally the correspondence section is open to readers who want to respond to articles published in Infection or to succinctly present information to the general readership. Infection adheres to a high standard of quality of all published material. Each article undergoes a peer-review process. At the same time the editors aim to keep the interval between submission and publication as short as possible. For articles describing particularly timely or important new findings accelerated peer-review and fast-track publication is made available.