Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Encyclopedia
The Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases is a peer-reviewed
medical journal
publishing original research and review articles on clinical and microbiological aspects of infectious disease
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-based publisher.
is Ragnar Norrby. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Vaccine Institute
and was the Director-General of the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) until June 2009. He has also acted as chairman of the Swedish Society of Medicine and served as Professor at Lund University
between 1988 and 2000.
Peer review
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medical journal
Medical journal
A public health journal is a scientific journal devoted to the field of public health, including epidemiology, biostatistics, and health care . Public health journals, like most scientific journals, are peer-reviewed...
publishing original research and review articles on clinical and microbiological aspects of infectious disease
Infectious disease
Infectious diseases, also known as communicable diseases, contagious diseases or transmissible diseases comprise clinically evident illness resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism...
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Core topics
- clinical aspects of infectious diseases
- laboratory investigations of clinical significance (bacteriological, virological, parasitological, mycological, immunological, pathological, physiological, chemical and pharmacological)
- epidemiological and epizootological studies of human infections
- experimental infections
Publisher
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases is published by Informa Healthcare, a trading division in Informa plc, a United KingdomUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
-based publisher.
Editor-in-Chief
The current editor in chiefEditor in chief
An editor-in-chief is a publication's primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies. Additionally, the editor-in-chief is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members as well as keeping up with the time it takes them to complete their task...
is Ragnar Norrby. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Vaccine Institute
International Vaccine Institute
The International Vaccine Institute is an international organization exclusively devoted to vaccine research and development for people in developing countries, especially children...
and was the Director-General of the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) until June 2009. He has also acted as chairman of the Swedish Society of Medicine and served as Professor at Lund University
Lund University
Lund University , located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden, is one of northern Europe's most prestigious universities and one of Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities...
between 1988 and 2000.
External links
- Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases homepage of Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Informa Healthcare homepage of Informa Healthcare which publishes Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases