About Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Clinical Microbiology Reviews offers a variety of reviews of developments in clinical microbiology and immunology, providing an excellent and timely overview of topics of concern to microbiologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, pathologists, public health workers, and infectious disease specialists. Bacteriology, virology, mycology, and parasitology are among the fields covered.

Scope includes:

• Instructions to Authors (January issue)
  
• Pathogenic Mechanisms
  
• Specific or Groups of Microbial Pathogens
  
• Clinical and Laboratory Aspects of Newly Recognized or Reemerging Infectious Diseases
  
• Recently Developed Antimicrobial Agents and Their Applications
  
• New Diagnostic Laboratory Technology
  

CMR has an impact factor of 12.643 according to the Institute for Scientific Information's 2006 Journal Citation Reports. It is ranked #4 by impact factor out of 88 journals in the Microbiology category.

Indexed/Abstracted in: Biological Abstracts, Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, Current Contents, Index Medicus, EMBASE, Science Citation Indes, and more.