Aims & Scope

Aims

Infectious Diseases and Herbal Medicine (ISSN 2724-5284) is an international, open access, peer-reviewed, authoritative journal providing basic and applied research. The Journal publishes original research reports, editorials, letters to the editor, rapid communications, case studies and reviews articles focusing on all aspects of infectious disease and herbal medicine including geographic, seasonal, and other risk factors that influence the transmission, diagnosis, pathogenesis, treatment, management, and prevention of infectious diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi, and identifies global trends that have the potential to result in major epidemics.

Infectious diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi; the diseases can be spread, directly or indirectly, from one person to another. In recent times, natural products have been as widely used as chemical drugs against clinical diseases. Most chemical drugs that are widely used today were isolated from natural products, and thus natural products will continue to be important raw materials for the development of new drugs. However, since natural products are the byproducts of empirical medicine, they lack scientific validation. Currently, various scientific experiments are being conducted to fill this gap by evaluating the efficacy of natural products. These infectious diseases were conquered through the discovery of antibiotics and antiviral agents. However, emerging antibiotic-resistant strains and mutant microorganisms are more powerful than the existing antibiotic-resistant strains and mutant microorganisms. In particular, new emerging infectious diseases in the last 20 years have become global issues.

Infectious Diseases and Herbal Medicine brings together veterinary and human health researchers and policy-makers by providing a venue for publishing integrated and global approaches to infectious and herbal medicine. The Editors will consider papers that focus on timely collaborative and multi-disciplinary research in infectious and herbal medicine. This journal provides rapid publication of original papers, reviews, and potential discussion papers embracing this collaborative spirit. Papers should advance the scientific knowledge of the sources, transmission, prevention and control of infectious and be authored by scientists with expertise in areas such as natural products and epidemiology.

The audience of Infectious Diseases and Herbal Medicine might be veterinary and medical scientists, infectious disease specialists, virologists, public health researchers, pharmacy, agriculture, among others working in research institutes, universities, governmental organizations, private agencies, and pharmaceutical industry, among others.

Scope

Infectious Diseases and Herbal Medicine coverage includes:

• New knowledge on pathogens (viruses, bacteria, protozoa, helminths, fungi and prions) and on host-pathogen interactions.
• Animal studies and in vitro experiments evaluating scientific efficacy of natural products used for the treatment of infectious diseases.
• Immunity to pathogenic micro-organisms and systemic and mucosal immunology of infected organisms.
• Investigation of pharmacological and molecular biological mechanisms of natural products for infectious diseases.
• Epidemiological papers should provide new knowledge on pathogen-host interactions and/or host-population interactions related to infectious diseases.
• The new technologies, such as nanotechnology, novel emulsification methods, and photodynamic therapy, in the formulation of natural products for infectious diseases.
• Clinical trials of natural products for infectious diseases using scientific statistical analysis.

Articles that incorporate recent data into new methods, applications, or approaches (e.g., statistical modeling) that enhance infectious and herbal medicine are strongly encouraged.

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