Gut Pathogens celebrates its 10th anniversary

Gut Pathogens was founded in 2009 as a journal focusing on enteric infections and aimed at an audience in the Global South and middle income countries. The focus of the first articles remained directed at virulence, epidemiology and genomics of classical pathogens. However, soon after the developments in the field of probiotics turned the journal into a preferred venue for research on this topic. Furthermore, parallel developments in genomics of bacteria resulted in an increase of short articles documenting bacterial genomics, and this led us to create a new short article type called Genome Announcements. Soon after, the single draft genomes became too pedestrian and the announcements were then made into a different article type, called Genome Reports, which entailed somewhat elaborate descriptions involving comparative genomics as well. Then came the time of microbiota analyses and related association studies. Another important area that has emerged of relevance to the journal is antimicrobial resistance. All these areas of works in medical microbiology have made Gut Pathogens a sought-after venue for first class research not only emanating from the Global South and lower-middle income countries, but also from the high income world. Research highlights In the past years, Gut Pathogens published several studies that attracted remarkable visibility from the research community and the wider audience. Among the others, a review published in 2011 provided insights on the ability ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Biology Developing World Health Medicine bacterial genomics enteric infections gastroenterology gut gut pathogens gut-brain axis microbiome Source Type: blogs