《医学病毒学杂志》提供了一种快速发表有关病毒影响人类的基础和应用研究的原始科学论文的方法。这些报告描述了人类病毒感染的特征、诊断、流行病学、免疫学和发病机制，以及病毒形态、遗传学复制和宿主细胞相互作用的基础研究。
Journal of Medical Virology provides a means of rapid publication of original scientific papers on fundamental as well as applied research concerning viruses affecting humans. These include reports describing the characterization diagnosis epidemiology immunology and pathogenesis of human virus infections as well as basic studies on virus morphology genetics replication and host-cell interactions.