The aim of The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases (BJID) is to be relevant in the broadest sense to all aspects of Infectious Diseases and its fields. The manuscripts submitted to BJID should develop new concepts or experimental approaches; they have to describe new principles or improvement of an existing method and their results; they have to bring new data about a subject which will be important to physichians; so they could not be a single presentation of known data.

The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases was established to provide the Brazilian scientific community with a vehicle for publishing and widely distributing our research. To attain this goal and to make access to publication easier for our contributors, it was decided before we printed the first issue that the BJID would accept papers written in Portuguese, even though the Journal is published in English. During the first two years, the BJID absorbed the financial cost of translating papers submitted in Portuguese into English. Due to the escalating cost of translation, and in order to balance our finances and ensure continued publication, the editorial board recently decided that the Journal can no longer bear the financial burden for translation.

We will continue to accept papers written in Portuguese, but translation costs will have to be paid by the authors. After the review process, when the authors are notified that a manuscript is accepted, authors will be asked to arrange for the translation, or if it is done by the BJID, the cost for translation will be billed along with instructions for payment. The BJID will continue to publish papers submitted in English at no additional cost.

� All the listed authors have agreed all of the contents (authors have to sign the agreement when they receive it with the galley proof of the article) and they are responsible for all informations included in the text.

� The corresponding author is responsible for all communications between the journal and all coauthors, before and after publication

� The corresponding author have to make a statement confirming that the content of the manuscript represents the views of the co-authors, that neither the corresponding author nor the co-authors have submitted duplicate or overlapping manuscripts elsewhere, and that the items indicated as personal communications in the text are supported by the referenced person.

� Any changes to the author list after submission, such as a change in the order of the authors, or the deletion or addition of authors, needs to be approved by a signed letter from every author

� The editors of BJID may seek advice about submitted papers not only from technical reviewers but also on any aspect of a paper that raises concerns. These may include, for example, ethical issues or issues of data or materials access.

� The authors warrant that the manuscript is original and contains no matter which is defamatory or is otherwise unlawful or which invades individual privacy or infringes any proprietary right or any statutory copyright.

All manuscripts submitted to BJID must be original and not published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

If a case of plagiarism occurs in BJID, a determination of misconduct will lead the BJID to exclude the article from the submission process or, if the article was already published, to exclude from the publication, and the authors will be accountable for the plagiarism.

The journal editors treat the submitted manuscript and all communication with the authors as confidential between themselves and the peer-reviewers. Similarly, authors must treat communication with the journal as confidential.

There is no charge to publish in The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases (BJID).

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Copyright 2008 by The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Contexto Publishing. All rights reserved. Except as authorized in the accompanying statement, no part of the BJID may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without the publisher's written permission. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use by specific clients is granted by The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Contexto Publishing for libraries and other users. This authorization does not extend to other kinds of copying such as copying for general distribution, for advertising or promotional purposes, for creating new collective works, or for resale.

The authors grant and assign the entire copyright to the BJID and Contexto for its exclusive use. The copyright consists of any and all rights of whatever kind or nature protected by the copyright laws of Brazil and of all foreign countries, in all languages and forms of communication, and the BJID and Contexto shall be the sole proprietors thereof. The author(s) agree(s) to indemnify and hold the BJID and Contexto harmless against any claim to the contrary.

For all primary research manuscripts in the BJID reporting experiments on live vertebrates and/or higher invertebrates, the corresponding author must confirm that all experiments were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. The manuscript must include in a cover letter or in the section Material and Methods, a statement identifying the institutional and/or licensing committee approving the experiments, including any relevant details.

For experiments involving human subjects, authors must identify the committee approving the experiments, and include with their submission a statement confirming that informed consent was obtained from all subjects.

The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases (BJID) is a peer-review Journal, so all papers (except Letters to the Editor) are evaluate by this system. If the paper follows the scope of the Journal, it will be send to 2 or 3 independent reviewers, selected by the editors (2 from the ditorial borad and 1 any other expertise).

The review process will ordinarily require two months.

The reviewers will be invited by the editor of BJID to do the comments about an article, in accordance with the specialty of each referee. Questions about a specific manuscript should be directed to the editor who is handling the manuscript.

We ask peer-reviewers to submit their reports via our secure online system. The reviewer will receive a username and a login that provide them to download the article and in a specific form write their comments.

All submitted manuscripts are read by the editorial staff. To save time for authors and peer-reviewers, only those papers that seem most likely to meet our editorial criteria are sent for formal review. Those papers judged by the editors to be of insufficient general interest or otherwise inappropriate are rejected promptly without external review (although these decisions may be based on informal advice from specialists in the field).

Manuscripts judged to be of potential interest to our readership are sent for formal review, typically to two or three reviewers, but sometimes more if special advice is needed (for example on statistics or a particular technique). The editors then make a decision based on the reviewers� advice, from among several possibilities:

� Accept, with minor corrections;

� Invite the authors to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before a final decision is reached

� Reject, but indicate to the authors that further work might justify a resubmission

� Reject outright, typically on grounds of specialist interest, lack of novelty, insufficient conceptual advance or major technical and/or interpretational problems.

As the Journal send to more than one reviewer, it could happen a conflict of interest. This conflict is solved by the editor-in-chief.

1. When the article arrives in the Editorial Office (mail or online), it receives a registration number;

2. A receipt card is sent for the author with the registration number, a username and login to the author monitor his editorial process by the website (if the article does not follow the criteria and rules of the Journal, it is immediately rejected and asked to be resubmitted);

3. Analysis of the Editor-in-Chief (if the article does not have substantial content, it is declined before a peer-review process);

4. The editor chooses the referees to make the comments of the article (at least two consultant should be part of the editorial board of the Journal and the other are chosen by editor-in-chief) (normally an article is sent to three reviewers);

5. The reviewers are invited to make the review and by a username and login can download the article in the website of the Journal and make the revision in a proper form;

6. This form with comments is sent to the author by the staff of the Journal (the names of the reviewers are excluded from the form/comments) ;

7. The author sends the reviewed article to the staff of the Journal;

8. The article returns to the reviewers and they can check if the comments were incorporated into the article;

9. Letter of acceptance to the author (if the reviewers permit);

10. Article goes to a Medical Editor to make the necessary corrections of the English language;

11. Receiving the correction from the Medical Editor;

12. Prepare the article for publication in the format of the Journal;

13. Transmission of "galey proof", "agreements", "reprint request" to the author, who has 48 hours to manifest itself and send the corrections of the proof;

14. Preparation of the "Final Proof";

15. Proofreading;

16. Printing;

17. Distribution.

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