Main description:

This book series focuses on current progress in the broad field of medical microbiology, and covers both basic and applied topics related to the study of microbes, their interactions with human and animals, and emerging issues relevant for public health. Original research and review articles present and discuss multidisciplinary findings and developments on various aspects of microbiology, infectious diseases, and their diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health is a subseries of Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, which has been publishing significant contributions in the field for over 30 years and is indexed in Medline, Scopus, EMBASE, BIOSIS, Biological Abstracts, CSA, Biological Sciences and Living Resources (ASFA-1), and Biological Sciences. 2018 Impact Factor: 2.126.

Contents:

1. Novel Polycationic Photosensitizers for Antibacterial Photodynamic Therapy
Gennady Meerovich (gennadymeerovich@gmail.com)

2. Graphene Oxide Coatings as Tools to Prevent Microbial Biofilm Formation on Medical Device
Francesca Bugli (francesca.bugli@unicatt.it)

3. Quinolines and Quinolones as Antibacterial, Antifungal, Anti-virulence, Antiviral and Anti-parasitic Agents
Lidija Senerovic (seneroviclidija@imgge.bg.ac.rs)

4. Current Research and New Perspectives in Antifungal Drug Development
Svetlana Codreanu (codreanu.svetlana@gmail.com)

5. HCV Eradication: A Duty of the State, an Option for the Individual Lucia Craxi (lucia.craxi@unipa.it)

6. Ten-Year Retrospective Analysis of Legionella Diffusion in Hospital Water Systems and Its Serogroup Seasonal Variation

Giacomo Bertolino (giacomo.bertolino1985@gmail.com)

7. Ability of Three Lactic Acid Bacteria to Grow in Sessile Mode and to Inhibit Biofilm Formation of Pathogenic Bacteria
C. Vuotto (c.vuotto@hsantalucia.it)

8. Intracellular Survival and Translocation Ability of Human and Avian Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli Strains
Raffaella Campana (raffaella.campana@uniurb.it)

9. Evaluation of Bacterial Biofilm Removal Properties of Medster 2000 Cold Sterilant on Different Materials
Patrizia Messi (patrizia.messi@unimore.it)

10. The Struggle Against Infant Scrofula in Siena Between the 19th and 20th Centuries
Davide Orsini (davide.orsini@unisi.it)