《傳染病》的主要目的是為來(lái)自世界各地的讀者和投稿者提供一個(gè)展示和討論有關(guān)傳染病的臨床相關(guān)信息的論壇。文章涉及的病因病機(jī)診斷和治療傳染病在門(mén)診和住院病人設(shè)置。介紹了與傳染病有關(guān)的具有地方、區(qū)域或國(guó)際重要性的公共衛(wèi)生問(wèn)題以及醫(yī)院流行病學(xué)的進(jìn)展和問(wèn)題。該雜志的主要內(nèi)容包括描述研究項(xiàng)目結(jié)果的原始文章、關(guān)于增強(qiáng)臨床醫(yī)生知識(shí)的新觀(guān)察的簡(jiǎn)要報(bào)告以及關(guān)于與醫(yī)生診斷或治療傳染病有關(guān)的主題的最新評(píng)論。病例報(bào)告描述新的感染原因或臨床表現(xiàn)也歡迎。最后，通信部分對(duì)那些想對(duì)《感染》雜志上發(fā)表的文章作出反應(yīng)或想向廣大讀者簡(jiǎn)明扼要地介紹信息的讀者開(kāi)放。感染堅(jiān)持所有出版材料的高質(zhì)量標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。每一篇文章都要經(jīng)過(guò)同行評(píng)審。同時(shí)，編輯的目標(biāo)是保持提交和發(fā)布之間的間隔盡可能短。對(duì)于描述特別及時(shí)或重要的新發(fā)現(xiàn)的文章，可加快同行評(píng)審和快速出版。

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.