Ms. Ref. No.:  AJIC-D-17-00609
Title: MICROBIOLOGICAL QUALITY EVALUATION OF BEDPANS IN AN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
American Journal of Infection Control

Dear Dr. Aurélie Bros,

Initial review of your manuscript has been completed. Unfortunately, we receive many more manuscripts than we are able to consider for publication.  Therefore I must reject it.

May I suggest submitting this to one of the following journals:

Canadian Journal:
We recognize the value of your manuscript for infection preventionists and urge you to re-submit it to one of AJIC's sister periodical - the Canadian Journal of Infection Control (CJIC), where your paper might be a better fit. To submit your paper to CJIC, simply forward it (along with a copy of this letter) to the attention of Chingiz Amirov, CJIC's Editor-in-Chief, at editor-in-chief@ipac-canada.org.

IFIC Journal:

The International Journal of Infection Control (IJIC; www.ijic.info) is the free, open access, peer-reviewed society publication of the International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC; www.theific.org ). The IJIC and IFIC both aim to promote infection prevention and control practice and knowledge, and facilitate networking, worldwide; IJIC provides a forum targeted to those working in infection prevention and control in low and middle resource regions to share their research findings and practice information with others.

The IJIC welcomes submissions of good quality referred by the AJIC Editorial Board that are deemed unsuitable for publication in AJIC (because they are not relevant or original for AJIC readership, similar studies have been previously published in AJIC, or the scope would be more appropriate for readers of IJIC, for example). Authors can be redirected to the IJIC website above where instructions to authors and the submission process are outlined.


Thank you for giving us the opportunity to consider your work.

Yours sincerely,

Elaine L. Larson, Ph.D., CIC
Editor
American Journal of Infection Control





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