Special Issue "Parasites and Parasitic Diseases"
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Veterinary Clinical Studies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.
Special Issue Editor
Interests: molecular diagnosis and epidemiology of parasites of veterinary and medical significance; discovery of anthelmintic drug
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Parasitic infections cause a tremendous burden of disease in both animals and humans worldwide, and they are responsible for substantial production losses in production animals, leading to significant economic losses globally as well as causing disease of major socioeconomic significance in humans in developing countries. In addition, various animal parasites are responsible for zoonoses, resulting in significant public health concerns. For example, hookworms of dogs and cats can not only cause considerable morbidity and mortality in pups but they can also cause cutaneous larval migrans in humans.
We invite you to submit your review articles and original research covering a broad range of topics in veterinary parasitology, public health parasitology and one health. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to:
- Animal parasites and climate change
- Livestock parasites
- Parasites of companion animals
- Parasites and wildlife
- Antiparasitic drugs and antiparasite resistance
- Host–parasite interactions
- Control of parasites
- Novel diagnostics tools
- Non-chemical control of parasites
- Parasitic diseases
- Epidemiology and public health
- Identification and characterization of parasites
- Genetics and molecular biology of parasites
A/Prof. Abdul Jabbar
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- animal health and wellbeing
- animal production
- drug resistance
- host–parasite interactions
- veterinary
- vaccine
- parasite control
- livestock
- One Health
- Public health
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Sexual development in animal parasitic Apicomplexa: just biology or targets for control?
Authors: Teresa Cruz-Bustos; Anna Feix; Baerbel Ruttkowski; Anja Joachim
Affiliation: Institute for Parasitology, Department of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Veterinaerplatz 1, Vienna, 1210, Austria
Abstract: The phylum Apicomplexa is a major group of protozoan parasites with more than 6,000 named species, including gregarines, coccidia, haemogregarines, haemosporidia and piroplasms. Three of these groups contain parasites that cause important diseases of humans and animals worldwide. All of them have complex life cycles involving a switch between asexual and sexual reproduction which is key to parasite development. Fertilization (i.e. fusion of female and male cells) results in the formation of a zygote that undergoes meiosis forming a new generation of asexual stages. In eukaryotes, sexual reproduction is the predominant mode for recombination and segregation of DNA. Sex is well documented in many protist groups, and together with meiosis is frequently linked with transmission to new hosts. The sexual stages constitute a bottleneck in the life cycle of these parasites, as they are obligatory for the development of transmissible stages. Consequently, the sexual stages constitute attractive targets for vaccination. Detailed understanding of apicomplexan sexual biology is essential to design and implement effective transmission-blocking strategies for parasite control. This article reviews the current knowledge on the sexual development of Apicomplexa and the progress in transmission-blocking vaccines for their control, their advantages and limitations and outstanding questions for the future.
Title: An update on zoonotic Cryptosporidium species and genotypes in humans
Authors: Alireza Zahedi; Una Ryan
Affiliation: Murdoch University, College of Science, Health Education and Engineering, Harry Butler Institute, Western Australia, 6150