Microbes and Infectious Diseases is open access, a quarterly, double-blinded peer-reviewed medical journal. It publishes high-quality clinical and basic medical research and other relevant manuscripts that relate to all fields of Medical/clinical Microbiology and infectious diseases. The journal will consider for publication manuscripts from any part of the world but particularly reports that would be of interest to readers in the Middle East or other parts of Africa and Asia. If time is critical in your publishing strategy, our journal can help you to publish your research article in a timely manner, without unnecessary delays via the Journal FAST track policy for all submitted manuscripts. The FAST track takes 3-5 weeks from submission to online publication. Microbes and Infectious Diseases is the official publication of Zagazig University, Faculty of Medicine, Egypt. 

Continuous Medical Education (CME) activities

To strengthen awareness of innovative continuing medical education (CME) as a part of continuing professional development, Microbes and Infectious Diseases is intended to include an article/each issue; namely Continuous medical education forum (CME from EB). Readers can reinforce their learning experience and earn CME credit at the same time using:

• CME article — available online with each newly released issue.
• A case presentation or clinical vignettes scenario quiz-online exams tied to specific CME articles of every journal issue. For more information, please read https://mid.journals.ekb.eg/journal/about and https://mid.journals.ekb.eg/journal/authors.note.

The scope of Microbes and Infectious Diseases will include the following topics:

• Clinical microbiology
• Medical microbiology
• Infectious Diseases
• Infection prevention and control
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Molecular microbiology
• Pharmaceutical Microbiology
• Microbial informatics and experimentations
• Microbiome
• Microbial genetics and Proteomics