1 International Institute of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China; and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Canadian Centre for Vaccinology, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Senior editor, JIDC. dkelvin@jidc.org.
2 Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Universita' degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, Italy. Editor-in-Chief, JIDC. srubino@jidc.org.