Containment Strategies of Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology, Surveillance and Prophylaxis
A special issue of Infectious Disease Reports (ISSN 2036-7449). This special issue belongs to the section "Infection Prevention and Control".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 912
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hygiene; prophylaxis; healthcare-associated infections; microbiology; clinical pathology; antibiotic resistance
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Interests: microbiology and virology; antimicrobial stewardship; medicine; epigenetic; drug discovery; alert germs
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Interests: microbiology and virology; arboviruses; infectious disease; antimicrobial resistance; drug discovery; epigenetic, public health; hygiene; prophylaxis; healthcare-associated infections; surveillance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The burden of infectious diseases on public health, the global economy, and healthcare systems is an overwhelming challenge that we have clearly understood through the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which caused 5.89 million deaths in 2020 and 9.97 million deaths in 2021 worldwide. Increasingly widespread cases are being reported for West Nile Virus, Dengue, Zika, and Monkeypox infections. On the other hand, Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to rifampicin and third-generation cephalosporin/carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales strains in 2024 have become part of the WHO list of “high-priority pathogens”. Indeed, the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance (AMR) is estimated to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050, underscoring the urgent need for targeted interventions. Last but not least, Candida auris represents a growing threat due to its resistance to many drugs, biofilm formation ability and lethality in invasive forms.
The Special Issue "Containment Strategies of Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology, Surveillance and Prophylaxis", will feature articles focused on preventive measures to manage infections through the robust identification of 'alert' pathogens and epidemic clusters, targeted epidemiological surveillance, and the development and implementation of effective cleansing and sanitization procedures for the decontamination of critical clinical environments, objects, and medical devices.
Manuscripts structured as reviews, original research articles, brief communications, and case reports on this topic will be considered by the editorial team and evaluated for suitability for peer review.
The goal of this Special Issue of Infectious Disease Reports is to share information on new strategies for containing infections in community and nosocomial settings and to evaluate the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns, aiming for a multidisciplinary approach from a public health perspective. This will enable a greater awareness of evolving local realities to improve the management and prevention of future threats.
Dr. Giovanni Boccia
Dr. Gianluigi Franci
Dr. Enrica Serretiello
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- hygiene
- prophylaxis
- environmental monitoring
- travel medicine
- global health
- molecular diagnosis
- prevention
- food transmission disease
- zoonosis
- parasitosis
- fungal infections
- epidemic/endemic
- nosocomial infection
- microbiology
- virology
- AMR
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