Laboratory Preparedness for Emerging Infectious Diseases
A special issue of Laboratories (ISSN 2813-8856).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 418
Special Issue Editor
Interests: veterinary; infectious diseases; medicine
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Outbreaks of infectious diseases have had a profound and lasting effect on societies over the past decade, such as with SARS-CoV-2, avian influenza, Ebola virus, and currently monkey pox. Direct morbidity and mortality has occurred, but lasting effects like those of COVID-19 remain present. Often animal models for these emerging infectious diseases are urgently developed for studying the etiology, host immune mechanisms, and pathology of these diseases. Subsequently, the evaluation of the safety and efficacy of vaccines or drugs against these diseases are performed. This necessitates the ad hoc development of measures such as specific animal housing, barriers, waste disposal, effective methods of disinfection, and legislation.
This Special Issue will focus on all procedures, animals and employees, and laboratory preparedness for these outbreaks; topics include, but are not limited to, the following: laboratory animal housing, animal models, barriers, disinfection, and regulation and legislation.
We invite you to share your recent findings through this Special Issue.
Dr. Jaco Bakker
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- laboratory animal housing
- animal models
- barriers
- disinfection
- regulation
- legislation
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