Cutting-Edge Research on Pathogenic Neisseria
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Bacterial Pathogens".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2025 | Viewed by 94
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Interests: vaccines; pathogenesis; neisseria meningitidis; meningococcus; immunity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The 24th International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference will be held in Florence, Italy on 30th March–4th April, 2025. (https://ipnc2025.com/). IPNC is a biannual scientific meeting that engages basic and translational scientists with interest in two genetically related bacterial pathogens such as Neisseria meningitidis, which causes a devasting diseases such as meningitis and sepsis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a WHO priority pathogen resistant to most antibiotics which causes more than 80 million of sexually transmitted diseases.
To further advance the research and discovery in this field, we are partnering with Pathogens and launched this Special Issue. We welcome submissions on recent advances in basic, clinical and translational research related to Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae, with a wide range of topics including host responses to infection, bacterial responses and adaptation, clinical disease presentation and evaluation, diagnostics, therapy and prevention through new vaccine development, evaluation and implementation, antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology, population genomics, host-pathogen interactions, molecular physiology, gene regulation and modelling. Thank you for your consideration. We look forward to receiving your work.
Prof. Dr. Rino Rappuoli
Prof. Mariagrazia Pizza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neisseria meningitidis
- neisseria gonorrhoeae
- pathogenic Neisseria
- infection
- bacterial responses and adaptation
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