Vector-Borne Diseases in Temperate and Tropical Regions
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Parasitology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 20348
Special Issue Editors
Interests: protozoa; arthropods; vector born diseases; forensic entomology and zoonosis
Interests: animal physiology; animal behavior veterinary medicine; lymphocytes
Interests: immunology; parasitology; leishmania; molecular biology; cellular biology; vaccine; new drugs
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Dear Colleagues,
Vector-borne diseases (VBD) are of wide concern with severe repercussions in animal and human health. Arthropod vectors such as ticks and dipterans can transmit pathogens amid different mammals fast on a large scale. Prevention and control of these diseases depend on several features, namely, the distribution of arthropods vectors, their pathogen load, and host immune response.
Among emerging and neglected infectious diseases that threaten the world, climate change influences the transmission of a wide range of VBD, favoring the expansion of arthropods, as is the case of the sand fly, tsetse fly, and triatomine-borne diseases, causing disability and economic losses. Globalization, which includes trade and the flow of humans and animals across the globe, also facilitates the dispersion of parasitic diseases and vectors, generating new risks of infection.
As Guest Editors of this Special Issue, we invite you to submit research articles, review articles, and short communications related to VBD vector–host interactions, in particular topics such as infection, pathogenesis, survey, immune response, and One Health, among others.
Prof. Dr. Isabel Pereira da Fonseca
Prof. Dr. Graça Maria Alexandre-Pires
Prof. Dr. Gabriela Santos Gomes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vector-borne diseases
- Babesia/Theileria
- Leishmania
- Trypanosoma
- Borrelia
- Coxiella
- Anaplasma/Ehrlichia
- immune response
- survey
- dog
- cattle
- zoonosis
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