The Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases (SAJID) publishes in the areas of infection, including clinical and epidemiological aspects of communicable diseases, laboratory diagnosis of infections, characterization of infective agents by molecular techniques and the study of transmission patterns of pathogens in institutional and community settings. Other infection related studies cover surveillance of vaccine-controllable and other infectious diseases, drug susceptibility patterns of hospital-acquired and community-acquired pathogens and infection control strategies for the southern Africa region. SAJID is published under the auspices of the Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of South Africa.