《醫(yī)學病毒學雜志》提供了一種快速發(fā)表有關病毒影響人類的基礎和應用研究的原始科學論文的方法。這些報告描述了人類病毒感染的特征、診斷、流行病學、免疫學和發(fā)病機制，以及病毒形態(tài)、遺傳學復制和宿主細胞相互作用的基礎研究。

Journal of Medical Virology provides a means of rapid publication of original scientific papers on fundamental as well as applied research concerning viruses affecting humans. These include reports describing the characterization diagnosis epidemiology immunology and pathogenesis of human virus infections as well as basic studies on virus morphology genetics replication and host-cell interactions.