Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: Recent Advances

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a special issue of Pathogens https://www.mdpi.com/journal/pathogens on ‘Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: Recent Advances’.

 

This issue invites articles, reviews or communications which:

• provides new insights into Group A streptococcus epidemiology, transmission, host response or therapeutics
• describes clinical approaches to the diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
• reports operational or implementation research which addresses policy-practice or knowledge translation gaps relevant to acute rheumatic fever or rheumatic heart disease

This will build on current international momentum to reduce rates of rheumatic heart disease. We invite you to consider submitting your research for inclusion in this peer-reviewed special issue.

Prof. Dr. Anna Ralph
Prof. Dr. Laurens Manning
Guest Editors

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. Pathogens is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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