Guide for Authors
Aims and scope
Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology (IJMM) provides comprehensive coverage of medical microbiology, as well as infectious diseases. We welcome wide ranging contributions; from basic research at laboratory to clinical trials, including bacteriology, mycobacteriology, virology, mycology and parasitology, infection prevention and control, and infectious diseases.
We publish articles under the following subject categories:
Antimicrobial susceptibility and antimicrobial stewardship: surveillance of antimicrobial susceptibility in bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites of importance in humans, animals, and the environment that are frequently interconnected; mechanisms of action, resistance and interactions. The role of antimicrobial stewardship programs in hospitals and its effectiveness.
Clinical microbiology: understanding pathogenesis, virulence factors of the diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, mycobacteria, parasites and fungi in humans, clinical presentation, newer methods and tools for diagnosis of disease and therapeutic options; community health with respect to infection burden and prevention, disease epidemiology and climate change.
Emerging infectious diseases: understanding the epidemiology of new and emerging infections or old infections having a resurgence in humans including zoonosis; their pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment.
Medical mycology and mycobacteriology: pathogenesis, diagnosis, drug susceptibility, therapy, immunology, vaccine development, epidemiology, public health and outbreak investigation of diseases in humans.
Hospital infection: various hospital associated infections -their analysis, control, prevention and lessons learnt, newer methodologies to track HAI's, hospital outbreaks.
Molecular studies: application of phenotypic, genotypic and molecular techniques in the study of virulence, AMR genes, epidemiology, outbreak investigations and public health.
Microbiome and microbial ecology in health: the normal microbiome and dysbiosis; structure of microbial ecosystems and communities; microbial ecology, with an emphasis on how microorganisms interact with their environment, their host and each other and their impact on general health and treatment of disease. the normal microbiome and dysbiosis and its association with disease conditions; and microbial ecosystems and communities.
Immunology: basic research in immunity and host cell responses to infections.
Vaccinology and therapeutics: research in identifying vaccine targets, novel drug discovery and therapeutics.
IJMM publishes article types such as original research, review articles, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, clinical trials, correspondence, case reports and a new section - infectious disease grand rounds.
High quality scientific content related to infections from dental and veterinary sciences (like zoonotic illnesses) can also be submitted.
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Types of article
Manuscripts of high standard in the form of original research, multicentric studies, meta analysis, and systematic review, are accepted. Current reports can be submitted as brief communications. Case reports must include review of current literature, clinical details, outcome and follow up. Letters to the editor must be a comment on or pertain to a manuscript already published in the IJMM or in relation to preliminary communication of a larger study.
Original research articles and multicentric studies:
We encourage original research articles. These articles must have text shorter than 2500 words, excluding references and abstract.
Title: Title of the article should be short, yet sufficiently informative so as to be useful in indexing and information retrieval.
Abstract :The abstracts should be brief (less than 300 words) and structured to contain purpose, methods, results and conclusions of the paper. It should only highlight the principal findings and conclusions so that it can be used by abstracting services without modification. Conclusions and recommendations not found in the text of the article should not be inserted in the abstract.
The text of the article is to be under the following headings and the word limit is 2500 words excluding tables and references:
Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion.
Key Words: Three to five key words.
Figures and Tables: The article should have a maximum of 5 tables and, or figures.
References: The article can have a maximum of 30 references.
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