A heartfelt thank-you to our peer-reviewers
Authors: L. Leibovici, J. Friedman
Journal: Clinical Microbiology and Infection (2019)

We are grateful to our peer-reviewers and are continuously learning from them [1Leibovici L. What can we learn from our peer reviewers.Clin Microbiol Infect. 2017; 23: 687Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (6) Google Scholar, 2Friedman J. Leibovici L. A thank you to our peer reviewers.Clin Microbiol Infect. 2018; 24: 677Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF Scopus (4) Google Scholar]. Please see a full list of our peer-reviewers for 2018 in the online Appendix. It takes hours and an intellectual effort to write a good, helpful peer-review. We recognize the efforts of our peer-reviewers: we write letters of recognition to those who are most helpful; a peer-review submitted within one week gains the reviewer free access to the whole content of CMI for one year; and we invite those who write the best peer-reviews to the CMI Dinner held every year during the ECCMID. Last year the best peer-reviewers were waived the ECCMID's fee of participation. In 2018 we took another liberty with the time of our best peer-reviewers. In an effort to be of service to our readers [[3]Leibovici L. CMI Editors What are our aims at CMI?.Clin Microbiol Infect. 2018; 24: 1225-1226Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (11) Google Scholar], we asked the best peer-reviewers for their opinions, which topics should be reviewed in CMI in the near future – please see the Text Box for the list of topics that were suggested. We would like to ask for the help of all our readers. Please write to Julia Friedman: [email protected] with suggestions on topics CMI should review in the next months. Please also write to us with any suggestions you would care to propose on how to improve our peer-review process.BoxTopics to be addressed in CMI, suggested by our peer-reviewers.Tabled 1Changes in pneumococcal meningitis due to serotype replacementTreatment against drug resistant tuberculosisAntimicrobial hetero-resistanceInfections of the handToscana virus infectionsSecondary infection in patients with severe influenzaTransition from intravenous to oral antimicrobial therapyManagement of joint infectionsStrategies to discover new antibacterial agentsMultidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections in patients with hematologic malignanciesArtificial intelligence and machine learning for antimicrobial stewardshipAntimicrobial stewardship in the emergency wardDealing with confusion in observational studiesEvaluation of complex interventions in infectious diseases and clinical microbiologyDifferentiating fungal versus non-fungal infections by imagingMICs and relapse of fungal therapyClosely related fungal species: What can we learn for the clinical setting?Is it time for the next-generation sequencing to be implemented in the current clinical microbiology laboratory?MALDI-ToF beyond the identification of bacteria and fungiAdjunctive therapy in meningitisGut colonization with resistant Enterobacteriaceae Open table in a new tab Tabled 1Changes in pneumococcal meningitis due to serotype replacementTreatment against drug resistant tuberculosisAntimicrobial hetero-resistanceInfections of the handToscana virus infectionsSecondary infection in patients with severe influenzaTransition from intravenous to oral antimicrobial therapyManagement of joint infectionsStrategies to discover new antibacterial agentsMultidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections in patients with hematologic malignanciesArtificial intelligence and machine learning for antimicrobial stewardshipAntimicrobial stewardship in the emergency wardDealing with confusion in observational studiesEvaluation of complex interventions in infectious diseases and clinical microbiologyDifferentiating fungal versus non-fungal infections by imagingMICs and relapse of fungal therapyClosely related fungal species: What can we learn for the clinical setting?Is it time for the next-generation sequencing to be implemented in the current clinical microbiology laboratory?MALDI-ToF beyond the identification of bacteria and fungiAdjunctive therapy in meningitisGut colonization with resistant Enterobacteriaceae Open table in a new tab