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== mycoses - Journal for

Diagnosis, Therapy and Prophylaxis of Fungal Diseases ==


mycoses is one of the oldest medical journals specialized on mycology in the world, published bi-monthly by Blackwell Wissenschafts Verlag, Berlin, part of Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.

It was founded in 1957/1958 by Prof. Heinz Grimmer from Wiesbaden and published by Medizinische Verlags Anstalt, Berlin, under the title of Mykosen, the German correlate of mycoses. While the journal was originally published in German language there has been a switch to the English language several years ago. At that time the title was changed to mycoses.

The present Editor-in-Chief is Prof. Hans Christian Korting. mycoses, currently published with the subtitle reading “Diagnosis, Therapy and Prophylaxis of Fungal Diseases” is the official publication of Deutschsprachige Mykologische Gesellschaft e. V. (DMykG). The journal provides an international forum for original communications, letters to the editor and review articles on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, therapy, prophylaxis and epidemiology of fungal infectious diseases in humans and animals as well as on the biology of pathogenic fungi.

According to the ISI Journal Citation Report the Journal Impact factor for 2005 amounts to 0.765.

Categories: Medical journal/biology journal/mycology/mycoses