INFECTION

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.

《传染病》的主要目的是为来自世界各地的读者和投稿者提供一个展示和讨论有关传染病的临床相关信息的论坛。文章涉及的病因病机诊断和治疗传染病在门诊和住院病人设置。介绍了与传染病有关的具有地方、区域或国际重要性的公共卫生问题以及医院流行病学的进展和问题。该杂志的主要内容包括描述研究项目结果的原始文章、关于增强临床医生知识的新观察的简要报告以及关于与医生诊断或治疗传染病有关的主题的最新评论。病例报告描述新的感染原因或临床表现也欢迎。最后，通信部分对那些想对《感染》杂志上发表的文章作出反应或想向广大读者简明扼要地介绍信息的读者开放。感染坚持所有出版材料的高质量标准。每一篇文章都要经过同行评审。同时，编辑的目标是保持提交和发布之间的间隔尽可能短。对于描述特别及时或重要的新发现的文章，可加快同行评审和快速出版。