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Infectious Diseases

Infectious diseases are illnesses caused by pathogenic microorganisms—bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, and helminths—that can be transmitted directly between hosts or indirectly through vectors, contaminated water, food, or fomites. They span acute and chronic presentations and remain a defining concern of public…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 41× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2641-4538 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Infectious diseases are illnesses caused by pathogenic microorganisms—bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, and helminths—that can be transmitted directly between hosts or indirectly through vectors, contaminated water, food, or fomites. They span acute and chronic presentations and remain a defining concern of public health because transmission dynamics, host susceptibility, and environmental conditions interact to produce outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. Core scientific domains include pathogen biology, modes of transmission, the host immune response, surveillance, diagnostics, vaccination, and antimicrobial therapy, alongside non-pharmaceutical interventions such as isolation, masking, and physical distancing. Population-level control depends on understanding reservoirs, basic reproduction number, and the drivers of emergence and re-emergence, including ecological change and zoonotic spillover. Public Health International publishes peer-reviewed research touching these themes, including studies of COVID-19 prevention measures and transmission, the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases, malaria and typhoid coinfection, reimbursement policy for disease control, immunomonitoring approaches for infections, and healthcare-worker knowledge and risk perception during pandemics. Such work links laboratory characterization, clinical observation, and community-level prevention, reflecting the field's integration of microbiology, epidemiology, immunology, and health-systems policy in reducing the burden of communicable disease across diverse settings.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

The Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): A Narrative Review

Rezapour BarataliCorresponding author
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Assistant Professor, PhD in Health education and promotion, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
Exact topic International Journal of Coronaviruses Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3373

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 41 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Infectious Diseases, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Public Health International (ISSN 2641-4538).

Journal editorial board
Javad Javan-Noughabi · United Kingdom Evelyn O Talbott · United States Zainab Taha · United Arab Emirates

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