The Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine (APJTM) is an open access, peer reviewed and monthly publication and aims to provide an academic platform for clinical investigators, physician scientists, and allied health scientists in tropical medicine, especially those from the Asia-Pacific region, to communicate their latest research findings in tropical medicine in order to meet the growing challenges of understanding, preventing and controlling dramatic emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases in tropical regions of the world, especially of the Asia-Pacific region.

The Journal publishes new findings in preclinical, translational, and clinical studies on tropical medicine, with a focus on tropical diseases, such as malaria, dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever, kala azar, anthracia pestis, cholera, plague, leishmaniasis, tsutsugamushi, schistosomiasis, filariasis, trypanosomatosis, leprosy, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, babesiasis, Lyme disease, avian influenza, enzootic hepatitis, African meningitis, red tide, influenza, tuberculosis, epidemic polyarthritis, Japanese encephalitis, and other parasitological diseases and zoonoses. The Journal also welcomes studies on prevalent acute and chronic diseases in the tropical region that are of public health significance.

The Journal publishes editorials, perspective articles, original articles, review articles, case reports, and Letters to the Editor. Manuscripts with innovative ideas and/or approaches that bridge different fields or are of translational importance are considered with priority. The Journal style and editorial policies conform to the 'Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals' (http://icmje.org/about-icmje/faqs/icmje-recommendations/). The Journal engages in best practices in scholarly publishing and follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) ethical guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines).

All works published by the Journal are under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits anyone to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work provided the original work and source is appropriately cited. The Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine fully supports the Open Access initiative. Abstracts and full texts (HTML, PDF and XML format) of all articles published by the Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine are freely accessible to everyone immediately after publication.