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Infection and inflammation in women’s health

Guest Editors: 

Omar M. Shaaban: Assiut University, Egypt
Omer Weitzner: Meir Medical Center, Israel

BMC Women's Health welcomed submissions to our Collection on Infection and inflammation in women's health.

Infection and inflammation of the reproductive tract in women can have serious consequences including infertility and chronic pain.  Despite these potential negative outcomes for a significant portion of the world’s population, infection and inflammation in women’s health is an under-researched field.

New Content ItemThis Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being and, SDG 5: Gender Equality.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Omar M. Shaaban: Assiut University, Egypt

Dr. Shaaban is a senior consultant and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine Assiut University, Egypt, interested in research areas related to reproductive endocrinology, infertility, contraception, and pregnancy related complications. They had had more than 50 international publications in prestigious journals with more than 1600 citations including three Cochrane systematic reviews. They are currently working as a head of my university Grant’s Office and managing the Institutional International ranking office.

Omer Weitzner: Meir Medical Center, Israel

Dr. Weitzner is a senior physician of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv University, Israel, interested in research areas related to pregnancy related complications. They had had more than 30 international publications in prestigious journals. They are currently working as a head of Maternal and neonatal unit in Meir Medical Center.

About the Collection

BMC Women's Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on Infection and inflammation in women's health.

Infection and inflammation of the reproductive tract in women can have serious consequences including infertility and chronic pain.  Despite these potential negative outcomes for a significant portion of the world’s population, infection and inflammation in women’s health is an under-researched field.

To address this gap, BMC Women’s Health is launching a new Collection, ‘Infection and inflammation in women’s health,’ to bring together research about diagnosis and treatment of these conditions.  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, pelvic inflammatory disease, sexually transmitted infections, and chronic inflammation.  The Collection welcomes quantitative and qualitative research from around the globe and across the full spectrum of the women’s health field.

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    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:403
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    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:224
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    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2023 23:546
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Infection and inflammation in women's health" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.