Research & Reviews: A Journal of Microbiology & Virology

Research and Reviews: A Journal of Microbiology and Virology [2230-9853(e)] is a peer-reviewed hybrid open-access journal launched in 2011 focused on the rapid publication of fundamental research papers in all areas of Microbiology and Virology. The Journal intends to publish recent advancements in the field of Microbiology and Virology.

• General and Molecular Microbiology: Research on the biology, genetics, physiology, biochemistry, molecular mechanisms, evolution, and cellular organization of microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, fungi, protozoa, and other microbial systems.
• Medical and Clinical Microbiology: Studies on medically important microorganisms, host–microbe interactions, microbial pathogenesis, diagnosis, epidemiology, antimicrobial susceptibility, healthcare-associated infections, and laboratory approaches relevant to infectious diseases.
• Virology and Viral Pathogenesis: Research on DNA and RNA viruses, viral replication, genome organization, virus–host interactions, tissue tropism, immune evasion, viral evolution, pathogenesis, transmission, and mechanisms underlying viral diseases.
• Antiviral Agents and Viral Therapeutics: Studies on antiviral drug discovery, mechanisms of action, antiviral resistance, therapeutic targets, host-directed therapies, viral inhibitors, vaccine-related antiviral strategies, and emerging approaches to the prevention and treatment of viral infections.
• Microbial Genetics and Genomics: Research on microbial genomes, gene expression, mutation, recombination, horizontal gene transfer, transcriptomics, metagenomics, comparative genomics, genome sequencing, and molecular regulation in microorganisms and viruses.
• Microbial Biotechnology and Industrial Microbiology: Studies on microorganisms and microbial systems used in fermentation, enzyme production, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, recombinant proteins, biopolymers, biofuels, industrial bioprocesses, and other biotechnology applications.
• Food and Dairy Microbiology: Research on microorganisms associated with food production, fermentation, spoilage, foodborne pathogens, probiotics, dairy microbiology, microbial toxins, food safety, preservation, and microbiological quality control.
• Agricultural and Plant Microbiology: Studies on plant-associated microorganisms, rhizosphere biology, plant growth-promoting microbes, mycorrhizae, nitrogen fixation, microbial inoculants, plant–microbe interactions, soil fertility, crop health, and microbial approaches to sustainable agriculture.
• Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Ecology: Research on microbial communities in soil, water, air, extreme environments, and ecosystems, including microbiomes, biofilms, biogeochemical cycling, microbial diversity, community interactions, and ecological responses to environmental change.
• Aquatic and Marine Microbiology: Studies on microbial communities in freshwater, groundwater, rivers, wetlands, coastal environments, and marine ecosystems, including microbial diversity, nutrient cycling, water quality, aquatic pathogens, and ecosystem functioning.
• Bioremediation and Environmental Biotechnology: Research on microbial degradation and transformation of pollutants, hydrocarbons, pesticides, toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and contaminated soil or water, including bioaugmentation, biostimulation, and microbial technologies for environmental restoration.
• Microbial Physiology and Biochemistry: Studies on microbial metabolism, growth, nutrient utilization, stress responses, membrane function, enzyme systems, protein expression, cellular adaptation, energy generation, and physiological responses to environmental conditions.
• Microbial Cytology and Cellular Microbiology: Research on microbial cell structure, membrane biology, cell division, intracellular organization, microbial interactions with host cells, cellular imaging, nanomicrobiology, and structure–function relationships in microorganisms.
• Host–Microbe and Virus–Host Interactions: Studies on molecular and cellular interactions between microorganisms or viruses and their hosts, including adhesion, invasion, immune responses, immune evasion, microbiota–host relationships, and determinants of susceptibility or resistance.
• Microbiome and Metagenomic Research: Research on human, animal, plant, soil, aquatic, and environmental microbiomes using culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches, including metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, microbial community profiling, and functional analysis.
• Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Control: Studies on mechanisms, emergence, transmission, surveillance, and control of antimicrobial resistance, together with antimicrobial agents, resistance genes, stewardship, alternative therapeutics, and strategies for controlling pathogenic microorganisms.
• Vaccines, Diagnostics, and Infectious Disease Technologies: Research on vaccines, molecular diagnostics, biosensors, serological methods, nucleic-acid-based detection, rapid diagnostic systems, biomarkers, and other technologies for detecting, preventing, or managing microbial and viral diseases.
• Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: Studies on newly emerging or resurgent microbial and viral diseases, zoonoses, outbreak epidemiology, pathogen evolution, transmission dynamics, surveillance, preparedness, and public-health responses.
• One Health Microbiology and Virology: Interdisciplinary research examining microbial and viral interactions among humans, animals, plants, and the environment, including zoonotic transmission, antimicrobial resistance, food safety, ecosystem health, and integrated disease surveillance.
• Applied, Comparative, and Translational Microbiology: Research translating microbiological and virological discoveries into applications in healthcare, agriculture, food, industry, environmental management, biotechnology, and public health. The journal welcomes original, review, methodological, and interdisciplinary studies that make a clear contribution to microbiology or virology.