Editorial Team
* Starred names are JIDC Founders
Editor in Chief
Salvatore Rubino *, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Senior Editors
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
Salih Hosoglu, Tishk International University, Erbil, Iraq, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
David J. Kelvin *, International Inst. of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China
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
Athanassios Tsakris, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece
John Wain *, Quadram Institute Bioscience and 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
Editors
Vicente Sperb Antonello, Department of Prevention and Infection Control Hospital Fêmina, Porto Alegre, RS, 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
Carlo Contini, Infectious Diseases Unit, University of Ferrara, Italy
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 Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Jorg Heukelbach, Department of Community Health, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, Brazil
Lubomira Nikolaeva-Glomb, The National Reference Laboratory of Enteroviruses, Department of Virology, National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria
Mario Poljak, Laboratory for Molecular Microbiology and Slovenian HIV/AIDS Reference Centre, Unversity of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Alicia Ponte-Sucre, Laboratorio de Fisiología Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
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 Editors
Kabiru Olusegun Akinyemi, Department of Microbiology, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos , Nigeria
Nataša Andrijašević, University Hospital for Infectious Disease Dr. Fran Mihaljević, Zagreb, Croatia
Jurica Arapovic, School of Medicine, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Roberta Astorri, Department of Mental Health and Public Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Campania L. Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy
Myo Nyein Aung, Department of Global Health Research, Graduate School of Medicine
Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
Ammar Ayachi, Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology, Veterinary Department, Batna University, Algeria
Linda Bussini, Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS Rozzano, Miano, Italy
Iva Butic, University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia.
Cheryl Cameron, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, United States
Karapet Davtyan°, Data and Digital Health unite of Division of Country Health Policies and Systems, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hayk Davtyan, Tuberculosis Research and Prevention Center, Yerevan, Armenia
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
Buket Erturk Sengel, Marmara University School of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease and Clinical Microbiology, Istanbul, Turkey
Márió Gajdács, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Szeged, Hungary
Alyson Ann Kelvin, Department of Pediatrics, IWK Health Centre and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Kewal Krishan, Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, India
Carine Leite, Departamento de Gastroenterologia e Esdoscopia, Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
Liping Li, Department of Statistics, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Alberto Enrico Maraolo, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Maria Mazzitelli, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences,
Unit of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy
David SY Ong, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), The Netherlands
Emanuele Palomba, Infectious Diseases Unit, IRCCS Ca\' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Foundation, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milano, Milan, Italy
Marina Pekmezovic, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knoell-Institute, Dept. Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Jena, Germany
Silvia Preziuso, University of Camerino, Italy
Edmond Puca, Department of Infectious Disease, UHC "Mother Teresa", Tirana, Albania
Flor Pujol, Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, CMBC, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela
Tugba Sari, Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Denizli, Turkey
Barbara Soba, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Anja Šterbenc, Laboratory for Molecular Microbiology and Slovenian HIV/AIDS Reference Centre, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Darinka Vuckovic, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Roberto Zenteno, Instituto de Salud Publica, Universisad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Ver., Mexico
°Institutional affiliation is provided for identification purpose only and does not constitute institutional endorsement
Editorial Board
Lorena Abadia-Patino, IIBCAUDO, Venezuela
Sojan Abraham, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, USA
Ishag Adam, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Sudan, Sudan
Guillermo Daniel Alonso, INGEBI (UBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Martin Antonio, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Gambia
Mustafa Altindis, Sakarya University, School of Medicine, Dept of Clinical Virology and Microbiology, Sakarya, Turkey
George Farah Araj, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon
Omar Bagasra, Claflin University Orangeburg, United States
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
Maria Braoudaki, First Department of Pediatrics, University of Athens, Greece
Denis Karuhize Byarugaba, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Adrian Canizalez-Roman, Faculty of Medicine and The Sinaloa State Public Health Laboratory, Mexico
Nora Cardona-Castro, Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical - Universidad CES,Sabaneta, Antioquia, Colombia
Muge Cevik, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
Marie Anne Chattaway, Gastrointestinal Bacteria Reference Unit (GBRU), Microbiology Services, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom
Jean-Philippe François Chippaux, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France
John David Clemens, International Vaccine Institute, Republic of Korea,
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
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
Vitor Duque, Serviço de Infecciosas. Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, EPE. Portugal
Tamer Ahmad Essawi, Birzeit University, Palestinian Territory, Occupied
Giovanni Fadda, Universita' Cattolica, Roma, Italy
Chiara Fanelli, Infectious Diseases Unit, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Bernardino Fantini, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Amber Farooqui, Canada
Marcelo Ferreira, Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Brazil
Ana Herrero Fresno, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Adnan Khan, Karachi University, Pakistan
John David Klena, US CDC, United States
Daniel Limonta, University of Alberta, Department of Cell Biology, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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
An Van Le, Department of medical microbiology, Hue College of Medicine and Pharmacy, Viet Nam
Aleksandar Masic, Vetrepharm Research Inc., London, Ontario, Canada
Vittorio Mazzarello, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Grant McFadden, University of Florida, United States
Fakry F. Mohamed, Department of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt
Paola Molicotti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Universita degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Ziad Nasr, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Practice, College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Qatar
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
Behrouz Nikbin, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Dept. of Immunology, Iran, Islam
Fulgence Nzabintwali, LNR, Kigali, Rwanda, Rwanda
Chinyere Okoro, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom
Celso José Bruno Oliveira, Center for Agrarian Sciences - Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil, Brazil
Guadalupe Ortega-Pierres, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados IPN, Mexico
Bianca Paglietti, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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
Gianfranco Pintus, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Italy
Paola Rappelli, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Italy
Davide Rizzo, 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
Thomas Rowe, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States
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
Moustafa Ahmed El-Shenawy, National Research Center, Dokki-Cairo, Egypt
Seyed Davar Siadat, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
Nishant Sharma, New Jersey Medical School, Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Roy D Sleator, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
William Snelling, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, N. Ireland
Anthony Smith, Centre for Enteric Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa
Ibrahim Taher, Medical Microbiology AL-Jouf University, Skaka KSA, Saudi Arabia
Luís Távora Tavira, Centre for Malaria & Tropical Diseases - IHMT, Lisboa, Portugal
Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Saudi Aramco Medical Services organization, Saudi Arabia
Nijaz Tihic, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Department of Microbiology, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mohammed Timinouni, Institut Pasteur Maroc, Morocco
Danielle Troppens, Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, Germany
Thang Van Vo, Hue College of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue, Viet Nam
Gianpaolo Vidili, Scienze Mediche Chirurgiche e Sperimentali, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Yoshio Yamaoka, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Children Hospital, Egypt
Jan C. Wilschut, University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
Lifei Yang, Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA, United States
Raffaele Zarrilli, Department of Preventive Medical Sciences University of Naples, Italy
Dominik Zenner, Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control Public Health England, London UK, United Kingdom
Technical Editor
Gabriele Carenti, Marseille, France
Iside Casu, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Matthew Gavino Donadu, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Sonali Mookerjee, India
Niyati Naudiya, India
Nikki Kelvin, Canada
IT Department
Marco Scano, Italy
Billing Department
Giustina Casu
Giovanni Ghi