Molecular Advances in Zoonoses and Vector-Borne Diseases
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 224
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Despite significant advances in public health, zoonotic and vector-borne diseases remain leading causes of human and animal morbidity. Globally, infections due to malaria, leishmaniasis, helminthic diseases, zoonotic emerging viral diseases, and gastrointestinal diseases affect hundreds of millions of people each year. Molecular approaches to these diseases—including improved techniques of epidemiology, study of immunobiology, discovery of biomarkers, surveillance of animal reservoirs, vaccine development, and drug discovery—offer hope for earlier detection, prevention, and treatment of these afflictions.
This Special Issue showcases the latest molecular advances spanning this broad group of diseases, with emphasis on applications in human and animal populations. Featured themes include drug discovery for leishmaniasis, molecular tools for monitoring soil-transmitted helminths, and paratransgenic approaches aimed at interrupting vectorial-borne transmission of human parasites.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, molecular tools of disease surveillance, vaccine development for parasitic diseases, drug discovery and repurposing for parasitic diseases, vector paratransgenesis, and biomarker discovery.
Dr. Ravi Durvasula
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- malaria
- leishmaniasis
- soil-transmitted helminths
- one health
- cryptosporidiosis
- trypanosomiasis
- mosquito-borne infections
- arboviral diseases
- paratransgenesis
- drug discovery
- biomarkers
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