《傳染病》的主要目的是為來自世界各地的讀者和投稿者提供一個展示和討論有關傳染病的臨床相關信息的論壇。文章涉及的病因病機診斷和治療傳染病在門診和住院病人設置。介紹了與傳染病有關的具有地方、區域或國際重要性的公共衛生問題以及醫院流行病學的進展和問題。該雜志的主要內容包括描述研究項目結果的原始文章、關于增強臨床醫生知識的新觀察的簡要報告以及關于與醫生診斷或治療傳染病有關的主題的最新評論。病例報告描述新的感染原因或臨床表現也歡迎。最后，通信部分對那些想對《感染》雜志上發表的文章作出反應或想向廣大讀者簡明扼要地介紹信息的讀者開放。感染堅持所有出版材料的高質量標準。每一篇文章都要經過同行評審。同時，編輯的目標是保持提交和發布之間的間隔盡可能短。對于描述特別及時或重要的新發現的文章，可加快同行評審和快速出版。

The primary aim of Infection is to be a forum for the presentation and discussion of clinically relevant information on infectious diseases for readers and contributors from all over the world. Articles deal with etiology pathogenesis diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases in the outpatient as well as in the inpatient setting. Public health -issues of local regional or international importance related to infectious diseases are featured as well as progress and -problems in hospital epidemiology. The main contents of the journal include original articles describing results of research projects brief reports on new observations that enhance the knowledge of clinicians and state-of-the-art reviews on topics which are relevant to physicians diagnosing or treating infectious diseases. Case reports describing new infectious etiologies or clinical manifestations are also welcome. Finally the correspondence section is open to readers who want to respond to articles published in Infection or to succinctly present information to the general readership. Infection adheres to a high standard of quality of all published material. Each article undergoes a peer-review process. At the same time the editors aim to keep the interval between submission and publication as short as possible. For articles describing particularly timely or important new findings accelerated peer-review and fast-track publication is made available.