Clinical Microbiology Reviews® (CMR) accepts authoritative narrative reviews that are of primary interest to clinical microbiologists, medical microbiologists and immunologists, public health workers, infectious disease clinicians, and others interested in the pathogenesis, laboratory diagnosis, epidemiology, and control of human and veterinary pathogens.

Appropriate reviews address topics such as the following:

Infection and pathogenic mechanisms
Specific microbial pathogens or groups of them
Clinical and laboratory aspects of newly recognized or reemerging infectious diseases
Recently developed antimicrobial agents and their application
New diagnostic laboratory technologies
The microbiome as it relates to health and clinical conditions
CMR considers only literature reviews and not meta-analyses or primary research papers.