Infectious Disease Surveillance in Romania: Second Edition
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Public Health Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2026
Special Issue Editor
2. National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr. Matei Balș”, 021105 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: vaccine preventable diseases; surveillance; vaccination; infection control; influenza; West Nile
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a continuation of our 2025 Special Issue “Infectious Disease Surveillance in Romania”.
Communicable diseases continue to pose a challenge to public health systems, both globally and in Romania. Diseases can spread rapidly from one country to another, with new pathogens being identified frequently. Antibiotic resistance, a lack of information, misinformation, vaccine hesitancy, migration, and economic and social crises are the risk factors associated with outbreaks, so it is necessary to implement robust, functional surveillance systems that provide timely information regarding the monitoring of communicable disease trends. This is necessary to identify risk factors and areas for intervention. Epidemiological surveillance systems must be capable of collecting and analyzing data, disseminating information to public health authorities, and regularly assessing the effectiveness of the disseminated data.
This Special Issue aims to present recent findings related to the surveillance and control of communicable diseases in Romania. We welcome both original research and review articles whose scope includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- The surveillance, epidemiology, clinical and microbial features of communicable diseases in Romania;
- The surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases and vaccinations in special population groups;
- The molecular epidemiology of specific infections;
- Challenges and advances in the surveillance and control of outbreaks, and in alert management;
- The surveillance of influenza, COVID-19 and severe acute respiratory infections;
- The surveillance of healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic consumption;
- The technologies and tools used for the surveillance and control of communicable diseases, including vaccination monitoring;
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Daniela Piţigoi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- surveillance
- vaccine preventable diseases
- antimicrobial resistance
- health care associated infection
- influenza
- COVID-19
- Romania
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