Gut Pathogens is a fast publishing, inclusive and prominent international journal which recognizes the need for a publishing platform uniquely tailored to reflect the full breadth of research in the biology and medicine of pathogens, commensals and functional microbiota of the gut, in the context of infections caused by gastric/enteric bacteria, viruses and other causative agents. The journal publishes basic, clinical and cutting-edge research on all aspects of the above mentioned organisms including probiotic bacteria and yeasts and their products. The scope also covers the related ecology, molecular genetics, physiology and epidemiology of these pathogens. The journal actively invites timely reports on the novel aspects of genomics, metagenomics, microbiota profiling and systems biology in the context of the infections caused by E. coli, Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacters, Helicobacters, Vibrio and other important enteropathogens.

Gut Pathogens will also consider, at the discretion of the editors, descriptive studies identifying a new genome sequence of a gut pathogen or a series of related microbial pathogens or commensals (such as those obtained from new hosts, niches, settings, outbreaks and epidemics) and those obtained from single or multiple hosts at one or different time points (chronological evolution).

Short articles that briefly and concisely describe the isolation and characterization of new pathogenic species or variants thereof, or a new strain or type based on sequence analysis or association studies of host and pathogen genetic repertoires or polymorphisms (functional molecular infection epidemiology) are also welcome.

Topical areas include, but are not limited to:

Microbial etiology of gut ailments
Gut invasion mechanisms
Microbial toxins and virulence factors in infections of the gut and associated glands - liver, pancreas
Bacterial adaptation to gut niches and evolution of pathogenicity
Biology and ecology of gut commensals and microbiota in health and disease, in the context of infection and immunity
Biology and ecology of probiotic organisms in the context of infections
Host susceptibility or resistance to gut pathogens
Immune mechanisms of gut infections
Etiology of inflammatory bowel diseases and the underlying pathogen triggers
Molecular and serological diagnosis of gut infections
Treatment and drug resistance mechanisms
Molecular epidemiology, transmission dynamics and evolutionary genetics of gut pathogens
Vaccines for gut pathogens
Comparative and veterinary infectious diseases of the gut
Pathogenesis of bacterial, parasitic and viral infections of the gut
Genome sequencing, comparative genomics and systems biology in the context of gastric-enteric pathogens
Microbiota analysis, metagenomics and gut microbiomes in the context of infections of the gut

Research article
Case report
Commentary
Genome report
Hypothesis
Letter to the Editor
Meeting report
Review
Short report

Editor-in-Chief
Prof Niyaz Ahmed, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh & University of Hyderabad, India
Founding co-Editor-in-Chief
Prof Leonardo A Sechi, University of Sassari, Italy
Senior Editor - Clinical
Prof Francis Megraud, INSERM U853, France
Senior Editors
Prof Giovanni Fadda, The Catholic University, Rome, Italy 
Prof Barry Marshall, University of Western Australia, Australia 
Prof Lothar Wieler, Robert Koch Institute, Germany
Associate Editors
Dr Munirul Alam, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh 
Dr Sukhadeo Barbuddhe, ICAR- National Research Centre on Meat, India
Dr Mohammed Benghezal, The University of Western Australia, Australia 
Prof Stefan Bereswill, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany 
Prof Arun Bhunia, Purdue University, USA 
Dr Tim Bull, St George's, University of London, UK
Prof Piero Cappuccinelli, University of Sassari, Italy 
Dr Rukhsana Chowdhury, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, India 
Dr Mario M D'Elios, University of Florence, Italy 
Prof Ulrich Dobrindt, University of Muenster, Germany 
Prof Emad El-Omar, University Of Aberdeen, UK 
Dr Amin Fadl, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 
Prof Antonio Gasbarrini, Gemelli Hospital, Italy 
Dr Maria Gazouli, University of Athens, Greece 
Dr Christine Marie George, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Dr Robert Greenstein, VA Medical Center, USA 
Dr Sebastian Guenther, The Free University of Berlin, Germany
Prof Seyed E Hasnain, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Prof Masanori Hatakeyama, University of Tokyo, Japan 
Prof John Hermon-Taylor, King's College London, UK
Dr G. Douglas D Inglis, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Canada 
Dr Nitin Kurkure, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, India
Prof Peter Malfertheiner, Otto von Guericke University, Germany 
Prof George L Mendz, University of Notre Dame, Australia 
Prof Hazel Mitchell, The University of New South Wales, Australia 
Dr Asish K Mukhopadhyay, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, India 
Dr Balakrish Nair, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, India 
Prof Saleh Naser, University of Central Florida, USA 
Prof Mauro Nicoletti, "G. D'Annunzio" University, Italy 
Prof Colm A O'Morain, Adelaide and Meath Hospital/Trinity College, Ireland 
Prof Sukanya Raghavan, Sahlgrenska Academy, Sweden
Prof Barik Salih, Fatih University, Turkey 
Dr Torsten Semmler, Robert Koch Institute, Germany
Dr Mrutyunjay Suar, KIIT University, Odisha, India 
Prof Jamuna Vadivelu, University of Malaya, Malaysia 
Prof Yoshio Yamaoka, Oita University, Japan 
Prof Stefania Zanetti, University of Sassari, Italy 
Prof Liping Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 
Dr Dongsheng Zhou, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, China