Biomarkers for Human and Veterinary Infectious Diseases

Dear Colleagues,

The field of infectious diseases has rapidly entered the exciting era of individualized medicine, which aims to predict outcomes and select treatments for each individual patient.  A prerequisite for this approach is the availability of molecular markers that can aid in defining smaller and smaller subgroups of patients by refining diagnosis of causative pathogens and revealing additional, characteristic features of host responses at the organismal, organ, and cellular level. The advent of high-throughput profiling and sequencing technologies, even at the single cell level, has opened up previously unanticipated possibilities for the discovery of novel biomarkers. For this themed issue on “Biomarkers for Human and Veterinary Infectious Diseases”, jointly sponsored by the sister journals Cells and Pathogens, we welcome submissions that cover both pathogen-derived and patient-derived biomarkers and molecular responses. These can be based on clinical and preclinical investigations, also including cellular models. Submissions reporting advances in diagnostics for specific pathogens should feature the use of a molecular marker. Submissions from human and veterinary infections will be given equal priority. Of course, we hope for lots of novel and innovative findings to create a truly exciting themed issue. Considering that conclusions based on single reports can often not be reproduced in independent studies, we also welcome studies that independently validate (or disprove) previously published findings.  Likewise, submissions describing negative findings will be welcome if they test a valid previously defined hypothesis.

Dr. Frank Pessler
Dr. Leonardo de Araujo
Guest Editors

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