''APMIS'', formerly known as ''Acta Pathologica, Microbiologica, et Immunologica Scandinavica'', is a monthly

medical journal A medical journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that communicates medical information to physicians, other health professionals. Journals that cover many medical specialties are sometimes called general medical journals. History The first ...

published on behalf of the

Scandinavian Societies for Medical Microbiology and Pathology A Scandinavian is a resident of Scandinavia or something associated with the region, including: Culture * Scandinavianism, political and cultural movement * Scandinavian design, a design movement of the 1950s * Scandinavian folklore * Scandinavi ...

by Wiley Munksgaard. Its stated aim is to "publish original research in the fields of

pathology Pathology is the study of the causes and effects of disease or injury. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when used in ...

microbiology Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, prot ...

and

immunology Immunology is a branch of medicineImmunology for Medical Students, Roderick Nairn, Matthew Helbert, Mosby, 2007 and biology that covers the medical study of immune systems in humans, animals, plants and sapient species. In such we can see there ...

, and from related developing areas of modern

biomedicine Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

". It was formed by the 1988 union of the three sections of ''Acta Pathologica, Microbiologica, et Immunologica Scandinavica'': ''Section A, Pathology'', ''Section B, Microbiology'', and ''Section C, Immunology''. The original journals dated from 1924, originally published as ''Acta Pathologica et Microbiologica Scandinavica''. Since 2012 it has been an electronic-only publication.

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* Pathology journals Publications established in 1924 {{med-journal-stub