Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, abbreviated as AAC, is a scientific journal published by the American Society for Microbiology. The first issue appeared in January 1972. The journal is published monthly. There are interdisciplinary work, to elucidate the mechanisms of antimicrobial and antiparasitic substances published. Furthermore, studies on animal models, published for the pharmacological characterization and clinical studies.

The Impact Factor was in 2012 at 4,565. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge, the journal impact factor with this in the category of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at # 31 out of 260 journals in the category and microbiology at # 23 out of 116 journals is performed.

Editor in chief, Louis B. Rice ( Brown University, Providence, Rhode Iceland, United States of America).