Arthropod-Borne Viruses: The Outbreak Edition
A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366). This special issue belongs to the section "Vector-Borne Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2020) | Viewed by 56656
Special Issue Editors
Interests: medical entomology; emerging arboviruses; bat-borne viruses; disease ecology; vector competence; Rift Valley fever virus
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Interests: viral genetic determinants of vector competence and pathogenesis of arboviruses; molecular epidemiology; novel modes of arbovirus transmission
Interests: RNA virus pathogenesis; Flaviviruses; RNA virus vaccine development; neuroinflammation; neurodegeneration
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Arthropod-borne viruses affect billions of people around the world and comprise a significant proportion of emerging human pathogens. Most recently, the emergence and explosive spread of Zika virus from an obscure flavivirus transmitted among nonhuman primates and arboreal mosquitoes in Uganda to a global pandemic challenged the global health infrastructure to identify and respond to the emergence and spread of this virus. Viruses including Rift valley fever virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, Mayaro virus, Usutu virus, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, and others have captured the attention of the scientific community as possible emerging public health threats.
This Special Issue will highlight various aspects of arbovirus outbreaks in endemic regions as well as areas of introduction. We seek to showcase the important work that is being done to mitigate epidemic activity and protect human health from emerging arboviral threats, as well as provide a collection of insights into factors that contribute to outbreak initiation and maintenance, movement of viruses to new areas, novel treatment and containment options, and of novel disease phenotypes and modes of transmission. Manuscripts to be included in this collection are being sought in the following areas: novel surveillance approaches; outbreak prediction and risk assessment; virus transmission ecology and epidemiology during recent outbreaks; advances in diagnosis and treatment of emerging arboviral diseases; virus genetic diversity and evolution; emergence trends and invasion ecology of vectors and viruses into areas of introduction; new discoveries, changes in epidemiology, pathogenicity, geographic distribution of vectors and viruses; unique case studies; lessons from the field; new data on vector and reservoir potential; and the dynamics of virus spill-over and spillback.
Dr. Rebekah C. Kading
Dr. Aaron C Brault
Prof. Dr. J. David Beckham
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- arbovirus
- surveillance
- outbreak
- epidemiology
- emerging viruses
- mosquito
- tick
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