Journal of Microbiology and Immunology Commentary Edi dt
Clinical Microbial pathology Konstantin C Koban University hospital in Zürich, Switzerland
Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI) is a month- porary medical field of “general pathology”, an area which ly peer-reviewed medical journal publishing original re- includes a number of distinct but inter-related medical search and review articles that assist physicians and mi- specialties that diagnose disease, mostly through analysis crobiologists in their management of patients and the of tissue, cell, and body fluid samples. Idiomatically, “a prevention of infectious diseases. CMI publishes manu- pathology” may also refer to the predicted or actual pro- scripts presenting the results of original research in clin- gression of particular diseases (as in the statement “the ical microbiology, infectious diseases, bacteriology, my- many different forms of cancer have diverse pathologies”), cology, virology and parasitology, including immunology and the affix pathy is sometimes used to indicate a state and epidemiology as related to these fields. The journal of disease in cases of both physical ailment (as in cardio- website offers online articles and issues as well as collec- myopathy) and psychological conditions (such as psychop- tions according to article type. The journal also publishes athy). A physician practicing pathology is called a patholo- editorials, commentaries and reviews, as well as guide- gist. As a field of general inquiry and research, pathology lines originating from ESCMID Study Groups and ESC- addresses four components of disease: cause, mechanisms MID-sponsored conferences. These guidelines and collec- of development (pathogenesis), structural alterations of tions make CMI a reference source for infectious disease cells (morphologic changes), and the consequences of researchers, for practising clinicians and for informing changes (clinical manifestations). In common medical people of emerging infections and new outbreaks. CMI practice, general pathology is mostly concerned with an- was launched in 1995 and is published by Elsevier on alyzing known clinical abnormalities that are markers or behalf of the European Society of Clinical Microbiolo- precursors for both infectious and non-infectious disease, gy and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), of which it is the and is conducted by experts in one of two major special- official journal. The editor-in-chief is Leonard Leibovici ties, anatomical pathology and clinical pathology. Further (Tel-Aviv University). According to the Journal Citation divisions in specialty exist on the basis of the involved Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 6.425. sample types (comparing, for example, cytopathology, he- The journal aims to promote the use of good methods in matopathology, and histopathology), organs (as in renal basic and clinical research, and to publish interesting and pathology), and physiological systems (oral pathology), as thought-provoking materials that have the potential to well as on the basis of the focus of the examination (as change clinical practice. Clinical pathology is a medical with forensic pathology) Pathology is a significant field in specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease modern medical diagnosis and medical research. based on the laboratory analysis of bodily fluids, such as The study of pathology, including the detailed examina- blood, urine, and tissue homogenates or extracts using tion of the body, including dissection and inquiry into the tools of chemistry, microbiology, hematology and specific maladies, dates back to antiquity. Rudimentary molecular pathology. This specialty requires a medical understanding of many conditions was present in most residency. Pathology is the study of the causes and effects early societies and is attested to in the records of the ear- of disease or injury. The word pathology also refers to the liest historical societies, including those of the Middle study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range East, India, and China. By the Hellenic period of ancient of bioscience research fields and medical practices. How- Greece, a concerted causal study of disease was underway ever, when used in the context of modern medical treat- (see Medicine in ancient Greece), with many notable early ment, the term is often used in a more narrow fashion to physicians (such as Hippocrates, for whom the modern refer to processes and tests which fall within the contem- Hippocratic Oath is named) having developed methods of diagnosis and prognosis for a number of diseases.
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