Laboratory Diagnostics in Epidemiological Diseases Caused by Animal Pathogens
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 1544
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Interests: veterinary microbiology; foodborne pathogens; Clostridial diseases; Clostridium botulinum; molecular biology
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Interests: veterinary microbiology; molecular biology; infectious disease; cattle and horse viruses; veterinary virology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Animal pathogens are pathogenic agents in wild and domestic animal species that can be characterized by various modes of transmission. They comprise a very diverse group of microorganisms, including viruses, bacteria, and pathogenic species of fungi and yeasts, as well as parasites. Specific species of these microorganisms, through either their entry into the host or their ability to produce a range of toxins, can cause not only the occurrence of serious disease entities that pose a deadly threat to animals but also a threat to the health or life of consumers of products of animal origin.
Laboratory diagnostics focusing on the identification of pathogens play an important role in the effective treatment of diseases in animals and in managing strategies for handling samples in many cases of epidemiological outbreaks. Currently, techniques commonly used in diagnostics include traditional and biochemical methods, as well as molecular biology methods, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and more advanced techniques such as high-throughput sequencing (NGS), which is used in epidemiological investigations to identify the sources and pathways of animal diseases. However, there is an ongoing need to develop new methods to allow the fastest and most accurate diagnosis of disease entities occurring in animals.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to gather articles presenting the latest knowledge on methods used in the laboratory diagnosis of diseases caused by animal pathogens. We encourage the submission of original research and review papers in this area. Papers on the following topics are especially welcome:
-laboratory diagnostics in diseases caused by infectious animal pathogens;
-laboratory diagnostics in non-infectious diseases caused by animal pathogens;
-the laboratory management of epidemiological outbreaks;
-laboratory diagnostics in zoonoses;
-laboratory diagnostics in animal diseases caused by microbial toxins;
-new trends in laboratory procedures used for the detection of pathogens.
Dr. Tomasz Grenda
Dr. Karol Stasiak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- animal pathogens
- laboratory diagnostics
- epidemiology
- infections
- toxins
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