International Journal of Clinical Microbiology
What a laboratory can say about an infection, how it comes to say it, and how far that statement can be relied on.
From the published record
The journal's most recent records, with the bylines as the published articles carry them. The full archive is open, free to read and free of registration.
Isolation of Burkholderia cepacia Complex from Pericardial Fluid in a Patient with Lung Adenocarcinoma with Metastasis: A Rare Case Report
Mirlekar K, Saraf M, Sarage A
LMMF's Mai Mangeshkar Hospital
Case report·Diagnostic bacteriology, non-fermenting Gram-negative isolates·Volume 1, Issue 4·Pages 8–12·
Disseminated Mucormycosis Diagnosed by Urine Microscopy in a Patient with Relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Case Report
Bhavini Shah, Ankit Jitani, Nidhi Rao, Jay Nimavat, Karuna Patel
Department of Microbiology, Marengo CIMS Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Case report·Medical mycology, direct microscopy in invasive fungal infection·Volume 1, Issue 4·Pages 1–7·
Diagnostic Performance of Smear Microscopy and Xpert MTB/RIF Versus MGIT Culture in Republic of Congo
Darrel Ornelle Elion Assiana, Murphy Arnold Elouma Ndinga, Freisnel Hermeland Mouzinga, Franck-Hardin Okemba-Okombi, Jeannhey Christevy Vouvoungui, Gabriel Ahombo, Francine Ntoumi
Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
Research article·Diagnostic accuracy, smear microscopy and Xpert MTB/RIF against MGIT culture·Volume 1, Issue 3·Pages 39–48··doi.org/10.14302/issn.2690-4721.ijcm-25-5786
Genotypic Diversity among Salmonella Typhi Isolated from Children Living in Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
Susan Mutile Kavai, Julius Oyugi, Cecilia Mbae, Celestine Wairimu, Kelvin Kering, Collins Kebenei, Peter Muturi, Sylvia Omulo, Samuel Kariuki
Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
Research article·Molecular diagnostics, genotyping of a bacterial pathogen·Volume 1, Issue 3·Pages 18–27··doi.org/10.14302/issn.2690-4721.ijcm-24-5195
Prevalence and Antifungal Susceptibility of Candida species from patients attending Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
Girah. D. N, Akani. N. P, Aleruchi. O
Department of Science Laboratory Technology, Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic, Bori, Rivers State, Nigeria
Research article·Medical mycology, species prevalence and antifungal susceptibility testing·Volume 1, Issue 3·Pages 1–17··doi.org/10.14302/issn.2690-4721.ijcm-24-5126
Fecal Shedding, Antimicrobial Resistance and In Vitro Biofilm formation on Simulated Gallstones by Salmonella Typhi Isolated from Typhoid Cases and Asymptomatic Carriers in Nairobi, Kenya
Peter Muturi, Peter Wachira, Maina Wagacha, Cecilia Mbae, Susan Kavai, Musa Muhammed, John S. Gunn, Samuel Kariuki
Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
Research article·Antimicrobial resistance, carriage, biofilm formation and resistance profiling·Volume 1, Issue 2·Pages 23–36··doi.org/10.14302/issn.2690-4721.ijcm-24-5030
The field, as this journal reads it
The International Journal of Clinical Microbiology publishes fundamental and applied research in clinical laboratory and infection-related microbiology, including human and animal pathogens, clinically relevant microbial communities, and methods supporting diagnosis, surveillance, prevention and care.
Core domains
Diagnostic bacteriology. Bacterial identification, culture methods, biochemical testing, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, and phenotypic characterization of clinically significant pathogens, including emerging resistance patterns.
Clinical virology. Viral detection methods, molecular diagnostics for respiratory and bloodborne viruses, serological testing, viral load monitoring, and the identification of emerging viral pathogens in clinical specimens.
Medical mycology. Fungal identification, antifungal susceptibility testing, the diagnosis of invasive mycoses, and laboratory approaches to opportunistic fungal infection in immunocompromised patients.
Clinical parasitology. The diagnosis of parasitic disease, microscopic and molecular detection methods, parasitology laboratory technique, and epidemiological studies of parasitic infection affecting human health.
Antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing, resistance mechanism detection, phenotypic and genotypic resistance characterization, and the effectiveness of antimicrobial stewardship programs in clinical settings.
Molecular diagnostics. PCR-based detection, nucleic acid amplification, sequencing applications, point-of-care molecular testing, and laboratory automation for infectious disease diagnostics.
Further areas of interest
Laboratory automation. Automated specimen processing, culture systems, identification platforms and workflow.
Infection control. Healthcare-associated infection surveillance, outbreak investigation and laboratory support for prevention programs.
Point-of-care testing. Rapid diagnostic tests, near-patient devices and decentralized testing strategies.
Quality assurance. Quality management, proficiency testing, method validation and accreditation compliance.
The central contribution must advance clinical laboratory microbiology or infection-related microbial biology. New data, rigorous reanalysis, evidence synthesis, methods development and scholarly interpretation can each contribute. See the full Aims and Scope.
Where the discipline still begins
Gram-positive envelope
- Thick peptidoglycan — holds the crystal violet–iodine complex
- Cytoplasmic membrane
Gram-negative envelope
- Outer membrane — lost to the decolorizer
- Thin peptidoglycan — releases the complex
- Cytoplasmic membrane
The Gram reaction separates isolates by what the cell envelope does to two dyes, and it is still the first useful thing most laboratories can say about a culture. Nothing added since — automated identification, mass spectrometry, sequencing — has removed the need to read it correctly.
Who edits the journal
Each affiliation below is the current employment on that person's own public ORCID record. Every board member is listed with role, affiliation and country on the editorial board page.
Editor-in-Chief
Xiou Cao
Senior Scientist, Biomolecular Technologies, Novo Nordisk Research Centre China, Beijing
ORCID 0000-0001-7202-6582
Editorial Board
Alaullah Sheikh
Enteric bacterial pathogenesis and diarrheal disease
Instructor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, United States
Publishes on enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli colonization, toxin action and vaccine antigens in Infection and Immunity, The Journal of Infectious Diseases and PNAS.
ORCID 0000-0002-2972-6978
Editorial Board
A.C. Matin
Bacterial stress physiology and antibiotic tolerance
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
Publishes on sigma-S dependent defenses against bactericidal antibiotics and on viability screening of flow biofilms, in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
ORCID 0000-0003-4468-980X
The board has 15 members working in 11 countries, of whom 11 publish an ORCID iD on their record. Manuscripts are assessed for scope, scholarly quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, and research integrity.
The full editorial board · Joining the board · Reviewing for IJCM
How a manuscript is handled
- Screening
- All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
- Peer review
- Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
- Decisions
- Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
- License
- CC BY 4.0Authors retain copyright. Copyright and license
- Identifiers
- DOIs registered with Crossref under the prefix 10.14302ORCID iDs are displayed for editors and authors who supply one.
- Reporting standards
- Studies of diagnostic accuracy report against the STARD checklist. Observational studies, including surveillance and prevalence work, report against STROBE. Studies involving animals report against ARRIVE. Ethical approval documentation is required, and data transparency is a condition of publication.Interventional clinical trials must be registered in an accepted public trial registry at or before the first participant provides consent for enrollment. The registry name, registration number, and registration date must be reported in the manuscript.
- Data availability
- Every empirical research manuscript must include a data-availability statement.Editorial policies follow ICMJE and COPE guidance and reference the EQUATOR reporting checklists. Editorial policies
Where published work goes
IJCM’s published record is supported by registered identifiers, article-level DOI metadata, discovery records, digital preservation and eligible funder-deposit routes.
- Journal identifier
- ISSN 2690-4721Registered to this title and to Open Access Pub, and carried on every article page and in every DOI.
- DOI registration
- Crossref, prefix 10.14302Each registered article has a permanent identifier that resolves to its published version.
- Discovery
- OpenAlex carries the journal record and its published worksArticle pages also carry Highwire Press citation metadata for scholarly search engines and reference managers.
- Digital preservation
- Open Access Pub is a participating publisher with PorticoPortico is a not-for-profit preservation archive run by ITHAKA, the organization behind JSTOR. The publisher's Portico record.
- Funder deposit
- Two IJCM articles are available through PubMed Central following author deposit.Eligible NIH-funded manuscripts may be deposited individually in PubMed Central through the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS).
What the journal accepts, and what it costs
Article types
Original research. Full-length investigations with methodology applicable to clinical microbiology practice.
Review articles. Systematic or narrative syntheses of a diagnostic technique or an infectious disease topic.
Case reports. Clinically instructive cases with educational value in microbiological diagnosis, interpretation or laboratory-guided care, including familiar organisms.
Methodology articles, including technical notes. Brief reports of a methodological advance, an assay validation or a procedural improvement.
Letters to the editor. Concise communications on published work or preliminary findings.
Perspectives. Commentary on an emerging issue or a future direction in clinical microbiology.
Submitting
- Primary routeManuscriptZone
- Alternative routeSimple manuscript submission form
- Assisted route[email protected]
- Article processing chargeUSD 1,499, invoiced after acceptance. The decision on a manuscript is taken independently of it. Article processing charges · to discuss the charge before submitting, contact the editorial office.
Authors must use only one submission route for the same manuscript.
Instructions for authors · Editorial policies · Call for papers
Before you submit
- Does my manuscript fit the International Journal of Clinical Microbiology?
- The International Journal of Clinical Microbiology publishes fundamental and applied research in clinical laboratory and infection-related microbiology, including human and animal pathogens, clinically relevant microbial communities, and methods supporting diagnosis, surveillance, prevention and care.
- How are manuscripts reviewed?
- All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review. Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts. Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
- What does publication cost, and when is it charged?
- The article processing charge is USD 1,499. It is invoiced after acceptance, never at submission, and the decision on a manuscript is taken independently of it. Authors who need to discuss the charge should contact the editorial office before submitting.
- Where does published work appear after publication?
- Articles are published open access under CC BY 4.0 with the authors retaining copyright. Registered articles have DOIs with Crossref under the DOI prefix 10.14302, and carry Highwire Press citation metadata on every article page so scholarly search engines and bibliographic services can read them. The journal record and its published works are listed in OpenAlex.
Everything on this journal
Send us the work
International Journal of Clinical Microbiology welcomes submissions throughout the year from laboratory scientists, clinicians and multidisciplinary teams working across clinical microbiology. Research articles, case reports, reviews, methodology articles (including technical notes), letters and perspectives across clinical laboratory and infection-related microbiology are considered throughout the year.
International Journal of Clinical Microbiology (IJCM) · ISSN 2690-4721 · Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302 · 13 published records across 4 issues of Volume 1, 2017–2026 · published open access by Open Access Pub under CC BY 4.0. Editorial decisions are independent of any fee, service, membership or role.
Journal updates
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