Zoonotic Disease Threats and Interventions
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 19929
Special Issue Editors
Interests: zoonoses; vector-borne infections; tick-borne diseases
Interests: zoonoses; q fever; intracellular bacteria; tick-borne diseases; bacterial stress response
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are preparing a Special Issue titled ´Zoonotic Disease Threats and Interventions´ within the journal Pathogens to showcase current knowledge, recommendations and strategies and to highlight controversies and knowledge gaps concerning various zoonotic diseases. Surveillance, prediction and intervention strategies are notoriously complex given the way that these pathogens are intertwined with their ecological transmission cycles. Infection risks vary as a result of both intrinsic and extrinsic forces but are certainly altered by direct or indirect anthropogenic influences from human activities such as climate change, high mobility and global trade. Indeed, this has been a driving force that has catapulted zoonotic infections to the forefront of infections of concern, accounting for epidemics and even pandemics of newly emerging or re-emerging diseases. Despite the high profile of emerging and re-emerging infections, these must not over-shadow the more insidious endemic zoonoses that account for considerable morbidity and mortality in both developed and developing nations. Delivery of several of the Millennium Goals is underpinned by control of zoonotic infections that impact upon health, wellbeing and poverty.
Within this Special Issue, we highlight ‘the state of the art’ regarding zoonotic infections, their prediction and intervention. We welcome original research papers, commentaries, reviews, guidelines and perspectives that present new insights in epidemiology, diagnostics, pathogen–vector interaction, host–pathogen interaction, animal–human interface, prediction and intervention of zoonotic diseases under the One Health approach to reduce risks of infectious diseases.
Prof. Dr. Sally Jane Cutler
Dr. Katja Mertens-Scholz
Dr. Dimitrios Frangoulidis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- one health
- epidemiology
- zoonoses
- public health
- veterinary health
- vector-borne disease
- surveillance
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