New Insights into Host-Vector-Pathogen Interactions
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 40
Special Issue Editors
Interests: vector-borne viruses; vector-borne bacteria; ticks; mosquitoes; vectors
Interests: physiology of tick-host-pathogen interactions
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Dear Colleagues,
RNDr. Milan Labuda, DSc. was a Slovak scientist, zoologist, virologist, and parasitologist. In the early years of his scientific career at the Virological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Milan Labuda focused on studying mosquito-borne arboviruses. In 1991, he was the first to isolate the West Nile virus in Central Europe. Later, he turned his attention to studying ticks and tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV).
Milan Labuda contributed to our understanding of the transmission of TBEV at the cellular level, disproving the theory that viremia played a key role in tick infection and demonstrating the significant role played by local skin infection in viral transmission between infected and non-infected co-feeding ticks. This renowned scientist co-authored two scientific monographs and 164 research papers.
The seventh edition of the Labuda’s Days conference will be held in honour of Milan Labuda and his distinguished expertise, featuring contributions in the fields of virology, microbiology, zoology, ecology, epidemiology, and parasitology. This Special Issue will also be dedicated to these topics, with a particular focus on ticks, mosquitoes, and vector-borne viruses and bacteria; however, contributions from researchers working in parasitology are equally welcome.
Dr. Eva Špitalská
Dr. Mária Kazimírová
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vector-borne viruses
- vector-borne bacteria
- ticks
- mosquitoes
- vectors
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