Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue on “Pediatric Infectious Diseases”. The venue is an ISI-indexed, peer-reviewed scientific journal in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.

Pediatric infectious diseases comprise a substantial gamut of conditions, infections, and approaches, which are essential to the practice of Pediatrics. From the neonate to the young adult, individuals of any age range are susceptible to infections, whether pathogenic or opportunistic organisms are involved. Children, given their environment, immature immune systems, and lack of prior exposure, are especially susceptible to infections, which happen following first or recurrent encounters with viruses, bacteria, protozoa, helminths, or other pathogens in their early years. The landscape of pediatric infectious diseases is highly variable, depending on the surrounding burden of disease, the rate of immunization in the community, the inherent immune status of the host, and the child’s age and the environment, varying widely from developing to developed country, from the community to hospitalized patients. Prevention and treatment approaches highly impact the dynamics of circulating pathogens, such as vaccinations or indiscriminate use of antibiotics for example. Innocuous organisms can be lethal to immunocompromised patients in one instance or become highly opportunistic in the face of another offending agent. Conversely, emerging infectious agents play an important role in the field of pediatric infectious diseases. Infections in children often have specific pathogenic mechanisms, which differ from that of adults, while diagnostics and management of infectious diseases in pediatrics may be very distinct from that of other patient populations.

We invite international researchers to conbribute a variety of manuscripts to this Special Issue, including original research articles, review articles, and essays that will add to the current knowledge of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnostics, prevention and management of infectious disease processes in children. The listed keywords suggest a few of many possibilities.

Prof. Dr. Karin Nielsen-Saines
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.