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Editorial
Volume 1, Number 1, September 2016, pages 1-1
Welcome Message From the Editor-in-Chief
Chen Liang
Lady Davis Institute, McGill University, 3999 Cote Ste Catherine, Montreal, Qc H3T 1E2, Canada
Manuscript accepted for publication August 10, 2016
Short title: Editorial
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/cii46e
It gives me great pleasure to introduce our new journal, Clinical Infection and Immunity (CII). The focus of our journal is to publish studies of infectious diseases that impact public health. Infectious disease is one of the leading causes of mortality, also including cardiovascular diseases and cancer. The infectious agents can be viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites and other microbes. We not only attend to the known infectious diseases with already identified causative infectious agents, we also encourage submissions of studies of newly emerged infectious microbes. In addition to clinical case reports, commentaries, and reviews, we also welcome in-depth original research articles, including basic research, exploring the molecular mechanisms of microbe infections, pathogenesis and pathologies.
Microbes co-evolve with their hosts. One key aspect of this co-evolution relationship is host immunity that defends against microbe evasion and, in the meantime, shapes the evolution path of the microbes. We have therefore decided to publish the immunity-oriented studies to provide readers a more complete and rich picture of infectious diseases reflecting the involvement of the infectious agents and the hosts. The immunity research can be on either innate immunity or adaptive immunity. Not only is it exciting to know how hosts mount immunity to combat microbes, it is equally exciting to explore how microbes evolve to evade and escape these powerful host defense mechanisms.
In a time when new journals are launched almost every day, we hope to provide researchers a new avenue to publish their unique and high-quality studies on infectious diseases, and also present readers a rich literature to appreciate the impact of infectious diseases on public health and the complex and exciting interactions between infectious agents and host immunity.
I look forward to reading your exciting studies.
Chen Liang, Professor
Editor-in-Chief
Clinical Infection and Immunity
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