Diagnosis and Detection of Respiratory Viruses and Bacteria
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 69
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sexually transmitted infections; diagnostic platforms; host–pathogen immune responses
Interests: molecular diagnostics; infectious disease; rapid test; surveillance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing incidence of acute respiratory tract infections is leading to high mortality in children and adults worldwide. Healthcare providers currently diagnose respiratory pathogens by performing physical examinations, rapid antigen tests, nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs), serology, viral/bacterial cultures, and imaging. Recently, new methods including isothermal amplification, microfluidics, and biosensing have made a huge impact in the rapid detection of respiratory pathogens. The early and rapid detection of infected individuals ensures the administration of effective therapies and the early implementation of mitigation strategies to contain pathogen transmission. We are pleased to invite you to submit your research findings on respiratory pathogen diagnosis (viruses or bacteria) for consideration for publication in this Special Issue of Pathogens, entitled “Diagnosis and Detection of Respiratory Viruses and Bacteria”.
Respiratory infections pose a major threat to global public health, and the specific identification of the virus/bacterium causing an infection is crucial in the timely application of mitigation strategies, in the early detection and containment of pathogen outbreaks, and to inform therapeutic options.
This Special Issue will present the last updates/discoveries in respiratory pathogen diagnosis within the scope of the “Identification and characterization of pathogens”.
For this Special Issue, we welcome the submission of original research articles and reviews. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, comparisons of the sensitivity and specificity of pathogen detection between portable and non-portable diagnostic platforms, the validation of prospectively and retrospectively collected samples, and comparisons among different methods for the collection of biospecimens, as well as the validation of different non-invasively collected biospecimens, such as saliva and nasopharyngeal throat swabs, compared with blood, which is seen as the gold standard. Testing devices can be based on nucleic acid amplification detection using either RNA or DNA, nanotechnology, isothermal amplifications, the characterization of host responses to either bacterial or viral infection, biomarkers, microfluidics, next-generation sequencing platforms using either targeted or agnostic approaches with the capacity to discover potential emergent pathogens, and antigenic approaches. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Susana Asin
Dr. Hakim Bouamar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- respiratory pathogen
- bacteria
- virus
- diagnostic test
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