''The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal'' is a monthly

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covering research pertaining to

infectious disease An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable di ...

s in children. It was established in 1982 as a bimonthly journal under the name ''Pediatric Infectious Disease'', obtaining its current name in 1987. It is published by

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is an American imprint of the American Dutch publishing conglomerate Wolters Kluwer. It was established by the acquisition of Williams & Wilkins and its merger with J.B. Lippincott Company in 1998. Under the L ...

and the

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are John D. Nelson and George H. McCracken Jr. (

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern or UTSW) is a Public university, public Academic health science centre, academic health science center in Dallas, Texas. With approximately 18,800 employees, more than 2,900 ful ...

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: * BIOSIS *

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* EMBASE *

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/Clinical Medicine According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2014

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of 2.723.

References

External links

* Pediatrics journals Microbiology journals Publications established in 1982 Monthly journals Lippincott Williams & Wilkins academic journals English-language journals {{Microbiology-journal-stub