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| Discipline | Infectious disease |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Robert C. Read |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1979–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| 38,637 (2021) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | J. Infect. |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | JINFD2 |
| ISSN | 0163-4453 (print) 1532-2742 (web) |
| OCLC no. | 04392967 |
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The Journal of Infection is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of infectious disease, covering microbiology, epidemiology and clinical practice. Established in 1979, the journal was initially published quarterly by Academic Press. The first editor was Hillas Smith. The Journal of Infection is the official publication of the British Infection Association (formerly the British Infection Society and the British Society for the Study of Infection). Since 2006, the editor-in-chief has been Robert C. Read (University of Southampton, UK) and the publisher is Elsevier.