The journal was established in 1977 and is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies.

The Editor-in-Chief has been Dr Rich Boden of the University of Plymouth since 2014.

[1] The journal gave rise to separate titles over the years but retained the subject areas of ecology and medical microbiology and indeed review articles as part of its scope nonetheless:[2] The journal is indexed and abstracted in the following bibliographic databases:[3] According to the 2023 Journal Citation Reports,[4] the journal has an impact factor of 2.2.

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