Editorial Board for section 'Emerging Pathogens'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members

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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
Interests: emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses; host immunity; neuropathogenesis; vaccine development; antiviral agents
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1. Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
2. Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Interests: enveloped virus entry; Measles; Ebola; Lassa; Zika; viral fusion

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Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: surveillance of vaccine preventable diseases; surveillance of communicable diseases; effectiveness of immunization programs

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Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología CNB-CSIC), 28049 Madrid, Spain
Interests: coronaviruses; virus host-interaction; vaccine development

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Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (FADDL), Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Greenport, NY 11944, USA
Interests: diagnostics; detection; surveillance; genomics; sequencing; genetic and phylogenetic characterization; vaccines; emerging infectious diseases
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1. Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, Via Portuense 292, 00149 Roma, Italy
2. Department of Pathology, Unicamillus University, 00149 Rome, Italy
Interests: immunity to M. tuberculosis; Echinococcus granulosus; SARS-CoV-2; HIV
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Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15102, Peru
Interests: emerging diseases; TB; HIV/AIDS; HTLV-1; free-living amoebas; brucellosis; typhoid fever; cholera; leptospirosis and parasites
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Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, North Texas, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
Interests: global health; climate change and health; natural disaster and health

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National Research Center for Wildlife Borne Diseases, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: wildlife borne diseases; wildlife conservation medicine; traceability; biodiversity and infectious diseases

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Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Interests: foodborne pathogens; stress tolerance; antibiotic resistance
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Interests: host response; pathogenesis; SHFV; simarterivirus; simian hemorrhagic fever; viral hemorrhagic fever; Ebola virus; filovirus; orthopoxvirus; emerging infectious diseases

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Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan
Interests: hemorrhagic fever viruses; zoonotic viruses; filoviruses; paramyxoviruses; bunyaviruses

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State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: bioinformatics; pathogen evolution, epidemiology and ecology; phylogenetics

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Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et Contrôle- Unité Mixe de Recherche 224 (MIVEGEC), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Univ. Montpellier, 34398 Montpellier, France
Interests: emerging infection diseases; virology; zoonoses; evolution; phylogeny; cross-species transmission; molecular and serologic diagnostics

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1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14625, USA
2. Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78245, USA
Interests: virology; vaccines; antivirals; influenza viruses; arenaviruses; Zika virus; coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; innate immunity; adaptive immunity; interferon; virus-host interactions
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The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Interests: viral immunology of coronavirus and Influenza virus

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Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Interests: glycoproteins; respiratory syncytial virus; paramyxoviruses; vaccine development; enveloped virus entry and assembly

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Department of Pathogenetic and Preventive Veterinary Science, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University, 1-21-24 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan
Interests: basic and applied research with recombinant influenza viruses; animal influenza surveillance; swine viral diseases

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Division of Experimental Clinical Research, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: neuroinfectious diseases; veterinary medicine; prions; metagenomics

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Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, 00290 Helsinki, Finland
Interests: virus evolution including studies on the genetic variation of virus populations, molecular epidemiology of RNA viruses, the evolutionary mechanisms behind the emergence of viruses and viral genetic determinants of virus cell/tissue tropism

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1. Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
2. Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa
Interests: Mtb bioenergetics; energy metabolism; immunometabolism; human TB pathogenesis; host gasotransmitters
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