This reader-friendly, bimonthly resource provides a powerful, broad-based perspective on the most important advances from throughout the world. Featuring renowned guest editors and focusing exclusively on two topics, every issue of Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases delivers unvarnished, expert assessments of developments from the previous year. Insightful editorials and on-the-mark invited reviews cover key subjects such as HIV infections and AIDS; skin and soft tissue infections; pathogenesis and immune response; antimicrobial agents: parasitic, viral, bacterial, and fungal; tropical and travel-associated diseases; infections of the immunocompromised host; paediatric and neonatal infections—some 12 items, all of major relevance.