Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift
Focussing on Veterinary Public Health
The Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift (founded in 1888) is one of the most renowned scientific journals for veterinarians in Germany and the official publication of the Division of Bacteriology and Mycology of the German Veterinary Medical Society (DVG).
Aims and Scope
The Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes contributions on all aspects of veterinary public health and its related subjects, such as epidemiology, bacteriology, virology, pathology, immunology, parasitology, and mycology. The journal publishes original research papers, review articles, case studies and short communications on farm animals, companion animals, equines, wild animals and laboratory animals. In addition, the editors regularly commission special issues on topics of major importance. The journal’s articles are published either in German or English and always include an abstract in the other language. All published scientific papers are permanently and freely available, and can be read and downloaded on our online platform, vetline.de.
General Information
The journal is published by Schlütersche Fachmedien GmbH. The editors-in-chief are Prof. Thomas C. Mettenleiter, president of the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Greifswald, Germany and its vice-president, Prof. Franz J. Conraths. As scientific editor, Dr. Katja Schulz coordinates the peer review process and provides support for all submitted manuscripts.
Please contact the editorial team via Katja.Schulz@fli.de.
Since July 2020, all the journal’s articles are published exclusively as open access documents under a Creative Commons license. For further details, see our information for authors.
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Current subscribers to the journal will continue to have access to all full articles that have not been published as open access documents via our online archive.
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Alter, DVM, Dipl. ECVM
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Food Safety and Food Hygiene, Center for Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Areas of expertise – zoonoses, food safety, molecular epidemiology - Prof. Dr. Martin Beer, FTA Virologie, FTA Mikrobiologie
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
Areas of expertise – virology, diagnostics, next generation sequencing, metagenomic analysis, virus discovery, viral zoonoses, veterinay vaccines, transboundary diseases - Prof. Dr. Gerhard Breves
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation, Institute for Physiology and Cell Biology, Hannover, Germany
Areas of expertise – physiology, nutrition - Prof. Dr. Klaus Eder (oec. troph.)
Justus-Liebig-University, Department of Animal Nutrition and Nutrition Physiology, Giessen, Germany
Areas of expertise – animal nutrition, animal metabolism, animal physiology - Prof. Dr. Susanne Hartmann (rer. nat.)
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Areas of expertise – infection immunology, parasitology - Prof. Dr. Christiane Herden, Dipl. ECVP, FTA Pathologie
Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Giessen, Germany
Areas of expertise – animal diseases, zoonosis, pathology, neuropathology - Prof. Dr. Anja Joachim, Dipl. EVPC
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Department of Pathobiology, Institute of Parasitology, Vienna, Austria
Areas of expertise – veterinary parasitology, diagnostics, host-parasite interactions - Prof. Dr. Barbara Kohn, Dipl. ECVIM-CA, FTA Kleintiere, FTA Innere Medizin
Freie Universität Berlin, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Clinic for Small Animals, Berlin, Germany
Areas of expertise – internal medicine, infectious diseases, laboratory diagnostic - Dr. Thomas Müller, FTA Virologie, FTA Epidemiologie
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
Areas of expertise – animal diseases, zoonoses, epidemiology, virus infections, rabies - Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Osterrieder, Dipl. ECVM
City University of Hong Kong, Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health (PH), Hong Kong, China
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Virology, Berlin, Germany
Areas of expertise – virology, vaccinology - Prof. Dr. Dirk Udo Pfeiffer, PhD, MANZCVSc, Dipl. ECVPH, FHEA
City University of Hong Kong, Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health (PH), Hong Kong, China
Royal Veterinary College London, Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, London, United Kingdom
Areas of expertise – epidemiology - Prof. Dr. Michael P. Reichel, Dipl. ECVPH, DVPH, DVTM, MVSc, MBA, PhD, FACVSc, FRCVS
Angaston, Australia
Areas of expertise – veterinary public health, zoonoses, meat and food hygiene, population medicine, parasitology - Prof. Dr. Silke Rautenschlein, PhD, FTA Geflügel, FTA Mikrobiologie
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation, Clinic for Poultry, Hannover, Germany
Areas of expertise – poultry diseases, zoonoses related to avian pathogens, applied immunology, virology, welfare aspects poultry related - Prof. Dr. Angelika Richter
Leipzig University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Toxicology, Leipzig, Germany
Areas of expertise – pharmacology, drug law - Prof. Dr. Uwe Rösler, Dipl. ECVM, Dipl. ECPHM, FTA Tierhygiene, FTA Mikrobiologie, FTA Epidemiologie
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Animal Hygiene and Environmental Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Areas of expertise – animal diseases, zoonoses, epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, biosecurity and hygiene - Prof. Dr. Lars Schrader (rer. nat.), apl. Prof.
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Animal Welfare and Animal Husbandry, Celle, Germany
Areas of expertise – farm animal welfare, farm animal husbandry, animal behaviour - Prof. Dr. Stefan Schwarz
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Areas of expertise – antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology, genome analysis - Prof. Dr. Katharina Stärk, PhD, Dipl. ECVPH
Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA, Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, Bern, Switzerland
Areas of expertise – epidemiology, disease control, surveillance, risk assessment - Prof. Dr. Dieter Steinhagen (rer.nat.)
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation, Fish Disease Research Unit, Hannover, Germany
Areas of expertise – fish diseases - Dr. Noël Tordo, PhD
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France /Institut Pasteur Guinea (Director), Conakry, Guinea
Areas of expertise – emerging viruses, molecular and cellular virology, rabies, viral haemorrhagic fever - Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Waldmann (†), Dipl. ECPHM, FTA Schweine, FTA klinische Laboratoriumsdiagnostik
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation, Clinic for Swine, Small Ruminants and Forensic Medicine, Hannover, Germany
Areas of expertise – antibacterials, antimicrobial agents, animal health, zoonoses
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Please note that only manuscripts designated for open access may be submitted. This is associated with a fee, the so-called Article Processing Charges (APC), which includes the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 In this way, all the authors of a manuscript retain their simple user rights and can disseminate their publication digitally throughout the world by referring or linking to the original publication in the Berliner und Münchener Tierärztlichen Wochenschrift (Open Access Gold).
Submitting your manuscript
Please carefully follow our guidelines for authors when writing and submitting your manuscripts. Submissions can be made via our online electronic manuscript management system only (Manuscript Manager).
- Guidelines for authors of the Berliner und Münchener Tierärztlichen Wochenschrift
Please prepare your manuscript according to our guidelines. - Publication Ethics Guidelines
- General writing guidelines for scientific texts
These guidelines contain important instructions pertaining to the correct style of English used in our veterinary journals. - Article Processing Charges (APC)
This form must be signed and uploaded when submitting your manuscript. The publishing fee is currently € 950. The full amount must be paid to the publisher prior to publication as soon as the manuscript is accepted. - Granting of rights of use
You must also sign and upload this form to complete the submission process for your manuscript. - Authorisation for the use of illustrations and photographs
All illustrations/figures not being produced by the publication’s author(s) can only be published with the written consent of the copyright holder (printing permission). - Imprimatur
Once (and only if) your article has been accepted for publication, we will ask you to sign this form and send it back to us. There is no need to do so at an earlier stage.
Open Access
These scientific articles from the Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift are freely accessible.
Impact Factor
The current impact factor of the Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift is 0,587 (2021)
