Aims & Scope

Aims

Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817) publishes reviews, regular research papers and communication on all aspects of pathogens and pathogen-host interactions. There is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical research in as much detail as possible. Full experimental and/or methodical details must be provided for research articles. There are, in addition, unique features of this journal:

• manuscripts regarding research proposals and research ideas will be particularly welcomed
• computed data or files regarding the full details of the experimental procedure, if unable to be published in a normal way, can be deposited as supplementary material

Subject Areas include but are not limited to:

• identification and characterization of pathogens
• pathogen invasion and host defenses
• transmission of pathogens
• pathogen genetics and genomics
• pathogen lifecycle
• host adaptation
• pathogen Inactivation
• innate and adaptive immune responses
• molecular mechanisms of host-pathogen interaction
• vaccine and therapeutic development
• immune defense mechanisms
• veterinary infections
• cell signalling effects
• vectorology

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Pathogens will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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