Molecular Research on Zoonotic Diseases: Current Advances and Perspectives
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: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 15
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emerging infectious diseases are a significant and growing threat to public health, the global economy and security. According to WHO, about 60% of emerging infectious diseases reported worldwide are zoonoses, with millions of infections and deaths. There has been an increase in these infections in recent decades, probably due to climate change and changing habitats of vectors, human population growth and urbanization, trade and travel, cross-border mass movement of people due to military conflicts in some areas, etc. The trend in these zoonoses is that new animal pathogens, especially viruses, remain unpredictable and continue to emerge and spread around the world. They represent a global health problem due to their epidemic potential, high mortality rates and the lack of available specific treatments and vaccines to control the spread of most of them. As countries become increasingly interconnected, emerging zoonoses in one country can potentially pose a threat to global health security. Therefore, they can have a devastating impact with serious economic consequences for countries through loss of trade, tourism and consumer confidence. We have all recently witnessed the major impact of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).
This special issue aims to provide up-to-date research and articles focused on the molecular biology techniques, as restriction fragment length polymorphism, hybridization, PCR, gel electrophoresis, whole-genome sequencing and etc. This methods become indispensable tools in epidemiologic investigations of infectious diseases. Molecular epidemiology of diseases at the interface of humans, animals, and the environment are an important part of the identification of emerging risk infectious diseases of zoonotic origin.
Prof. Dr. Gabriela Goujgoulova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emerging zoonoses
- re-emerging zoonoses
- zoonotic pathogens
- control strategies and measures
- animal and public health
- worldwide
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