The Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 open-access medical journal

Medical journal

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 published on behalf of the Indian Association of Medical Microbiology. The journal publishes articles on medical microbiology

Medical microbiology

Medical microbiology is both a branch of medicine and microbiology which deals with the study of microorganisms including bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites which are of medical importance and are capable of causing infectious diseases in human beings...

 including bacteriology

Bacteriology

Bacteriology is the study of bacteria. This subdivision of microbiology involves the identification, classification, and characterization of bacterial species...

, virology

Virology

Virology is the study of viruses and virus-like agents: their structure, classification and evolution, their ways to infect and exploit cells for virus reproduction, the diseases they cause, the techniques to isolate and culture them, and their use in research and therapy...

, phycology

Phycology

Phycology is the scientific study of algae. Phycology is a branch of life science and often is regarded as a subdiscipline of botany....

, mycology

Mycology

Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans as a source for tinder, medicinals , food and entheogens, as well as their dangers, such as poisoning or...

, parasitology

Parasitology

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, and protozoology

Protozoology

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed in Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases, Bioline International, CAB Abstracts, Caspur, CINAHL, CSA databases, DOAJ, EBSCO, Excerpta Medica/EMBASE

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, Expanded Academic ASAP, JournalSeek

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, Global Health, Google Scholar

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, Index Copernicus, IndMed, Journal Citation Reports

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, MedInd, MEDLINE

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/Index Medicus

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, OpenJGate, Science Citation Index Expanded, Scimago Journal Ranking, SCOLOAR, Scopus

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, SIIC databases, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

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