* Starred names are JIDC Founders

Editor in Chief

Salvatore Rubino *, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Senior Editor

Mohammed N Al-Ahdal, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Saudi Arabia

Mark Cameron, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, United States

Piero Cappuccinelli *, DBC, Clinical Microbiology. Sassari University, Italy and Carlo Urbani Centre, HCMP, Hue University, Vietnam

David J. Kelvin *, International Inst. of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Salih Hosoglu, Dicle University Hospital,Diyarbakir, Turkey

Peter Mason † *, Zimbabwe

Fawza Monem, Damascus University, Syrian Arab Republic

Iruka N Okeke, Haverford College, United States

Abiola C. Senok, College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, EAU

John Wain *, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Aysegul Karahasan Yagci, Marmara University, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Istanbul, Turkey

Guan Yi, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Athanassios Tsakris, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece

Editor

Vicente Sperb Antonello, Department of Prevention and Infection Control Hospital Fêmina, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Brazil

Maria D Appleman, Microbial Research Laboratory, Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA

Lela Bakanidze, NCDC Georgia, Georgia

Aleksandra Barac, Clinic for Infectious and tropical Diseases, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade

Marie Anne Chattaway, Gastrointestinal Bacteria Reference Unit (GBRU), Microbiology Services, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom

Phyllis Della-Latta, Columbia Univ Med Ctr, NewYork Presbyterian Hosp, United States

Rajni Gaind, VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi.India, India

Javier Garaizar, Dept. Immunol., Microbiol, and Parasitol., Faculty of Pharmacy, University of the Basque Cuntry, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Jorg Heukelbach, Department of Community Health, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, Brazil

Ana Herrero Fresno, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia

Pablo Zunino, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable (IIBCE), Montevideo, Uruguay

Associate Editor

Sojan Abraham, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, USA

Kabiru Olusegun Akinyemi, Department of Microbiology, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos , Nigeria

Alberto Alberti, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Myo Nyein Aung, WHO Collaborating Center for Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Ammar Ayachi, Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology, Veterinary Department, Batna University, Algeria

Cheryl Cameron, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, United States

Chao Chen, Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA

Camila Coelho, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) / NIH, Washington D.C., USA

Pablo Diaz, Department of Animal Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain

Miranda Drogari-Apiranthitou, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece

Vitor Duque, Serviço de Infecciosas. Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, EPE. Portugal

Amber Farooqui, International Inst.of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, China

Adnan Khan, Karachi University, Pakistan

Alyson Ann Kelvin, Department of Pediatrics, IWK Health Centre and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Liping Li, Department of Statistics, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA

Daniel Limonta, University of Alberta, Department of Cell Biology, Edmonton, AB, Canada 

Alberto Enrico Maraolo, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Aleksandar Masic, Vetrepharm Research Inc., London, Ontario, Canada

Chinyere Okoro, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom

David SY Ong, .Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), The Netherlands

Marina Pekmezovic, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knoell-Institute, Dept. Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Jena, Germany 

Edmond Puca, Department of Infectious Disease, UHC "Mother Teresa", Tirana, Albania

Thomas Rowe, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States

Anthony Smith, Centre for Enteric Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa

William Snelling, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, N. Ireland

Nijaz Tihic, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Department of Microbiology, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Danielle Troppens, Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, Germany

Lifei Yang, Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA, United States

Dominik Zenner, Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control Public Health England, London UK, United Kingdom

Roberto Zenteno, Instituto de Salud Publica, Universisad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Ver., Mexico

 

Editorial Board

Ishag Adam, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Sudan, Sudan

Martin Antonio, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Gambia

Lorena Abadia-Patino, IIBCAUDO, Venezuela

Omar Bagasra, Claflin University Orangeburg, United States

Denis Karuhize Byarugaba, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Maria Braoudaki, First department of Pediatrics, University of Athens, Greece

Guillermo Daniel Alonso, INGEBI (UBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mustafa Altindis, Afyon Kocatepe University School of Medicine Dept of Microbiology, Turkey

George Farah Araj, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon

Jesus F. Bermejo-Martin, Unidad de Investigación en Infección e Inmunidad, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, National Centre of Influenza,Valladolid, Spain

Norma Binsztein, Dept Bacteriology,National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Adrian Canizalez-Roman, Faculty of Medicina and The Sinaloa State Public Health Laboratory, Mexico

Nora Cardona-Castro, Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical - Universidad CES,Sabaneta, Antioquia, Colombia

Jean-Philippe François Chippaux, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France

John David Clemens, International Vaccine Institute, Korea, Republic Of

Ricardo Correa, ICGES, Panama

Tulsi Dass Chugh, BLK memorial hospital, New Delhi110005, India

Nigel Cook, Food and Environment Research Institute,Sand Hutton,York,, United Kingdom

Fazal Karim Dar, Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain

Tamer Ahmad Essawi, Birzeit University, Palestinian Territory, Occupied

Giovanni Fadda, Universita' Cattolica, Roma, Italy

Bernardino Fantini, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Marcelo Ferreira, Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Brazil

John David Klena, US CDC, United States

Luís Távora Tavira, Centre for Malaria & Tropical Diseases - IHMT, Lisboa, Portugal

Christopher H Logue, Public Health England, United

Danilo Lo Fo Wong, World Health Organization, Denmark da spostare nell editorial board

Jawhar Gharbi, University of Monastir, Tunisia

Amy Gassama Sow, Pasteur Institute, Dakar, Senegal

Gerardo E. González-Rocha, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile

Humberto Guerra, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru

Deniz Gur, Hacettepe University, İ.Doğramacı Children’s Hospital, Clinical Microbiology lab,

Ankara, Turkey

José Gutiérrez-Fernández, Microbiology Area. Hospital Virgen de las Nieves-University of Granada, Spain

Yadav Prasad Joshi, Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, Sungkyunkawn University, South Korea

Shahana Urooj Kazmi, Department of Microbiology - University of Karachi, Pakistan

Kamal Kishore, Fiji School of Medicine, Suva, Fiji

Grant McFadden, University of Florida, United States

Rogelio Navarrete Castro, Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Ángeles Metropolitano. Centro de Atención y Capacitación en Enfermedades Infecciosas S.C. CCIN, México.

Rajesh Nayak, U.S.Food and Drug Administration, National Center for Toxicological Research,Jefferson, United States

Fulgence Nzabintwali, LNR, Kigali, Rwanda, Rwanda

Behrouz Nikbin, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Dept. of Immunology, Iran, Islam

Celso José Bruno Oliveira, Center for Agrarian Sciences - Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil, Brazil

Tibor Pal, Department of Medical Microbiology, FMHS,UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Bodh Raj Panhotra, Dept Medical Microbiology,SBS Postgraduate Inst Biomedical Sci.& Res, India

Violeta Trinidad Pardío, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico

Christopher M Parry, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Guadalupe Ortega-Pierres, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados IPN, Mexico

Gianfranco Pintus, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Italy

David Rodríguez-Lázaro, Instituto Tecnologico Agrario de Castilla y Leon , (ITACYL). Laboratorio de Biologia Molecular, Valladolid, Spain

Vincent O. Rotimi, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Giuseppina Sanna, Department of Biomedical Science, Section of Microbiology and Virology, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Renato L. Santos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Shamala Devi Sekaran, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Seyed Davar Siadat, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic Of

Moustafa Ahmed El-Shenawy, National Research Center, Dokki-Cairo, Egypt

Roy D Sleator, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

Alicia Ponte Sucre, Unversidad central de Venezuela, Venezuela

Ibrahim Taher, Medical Microbiology AL-Jouf University, Skaka KSA, Saudi Arabia

Thang Van Vo, Hue college of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue, Viet Nam

Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Saudi Aramco Medical Services organization, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Timinouni, Institut Pasteur Maroc, Morocco

Yoshio Yamaoka, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Children Hospital, Egypt

Raffaele Zarrilli, Department of Preventive Medical Sciences University of Naples, Italy

Oguz Karabay, Sakarya University, Faculty of Medicine Department of Infectious Diseases., Turkey

An Van Le, Department of medical microbiology, Hue College of medicine and Pharmacy, Viet Nam

Jan C. Wilschut, University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands

Vittorio Mazzarello, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università egli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

 

Technical Editor

Nikki Ann Kelvin, JIDC

Maria Grazia Del Giudice, JIDC

 

Assistant to the Technical Editor and Linguistic Division

Eva Molak, Canada

Claire White, United Kingdom

 

Scientific Editor

Nadia Ahmod, Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom

Eve Boakes, United Kingdom

Marie Anne Chattaway, HPA, colindale, United Kingdom

Daniela Chessa, Universita' di Sassari, Italy

Wafa Habbal, Damascus University, Syrian Arab Republic

Richard C Huard, Columbia Univ Med Ctr, NewYork Presbyterian Hosp, United States

Adnan Khan, Karachi University, Pakistan

Gemma C Langridge, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom

Alicia San José, Nurse, Spain

Helena MB Seth-Smith, Sanger Institute

Chengming Wang, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Antigoni Chaidaroglou, Greece

 

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Marco Scano, Italy

 

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