Diagnostics and Vaccine Development for Emerging Infectious Diseases
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2023) | Viewed by 16412
Special Issue Editor
Interests: science & technology; vaccine related; prevention; immunization; emerging infectious diseases; computational immunology; infectious diseases
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on the design of diagnostics and vaccines for different types of emerging infectious diseases. These include recent outbreaks of previously rare diseases as well as more widespread incidences of diseases that have historically been reported in specific geographical regions. Examples include HIV infection, filovirus diseases (Ebola virus, Marburg virus, etc.), flavivirus diseases (Dengue virus, Zika virus, etc.), Nipah virus infection, and the coronaviruses (SARS-CoV-2, MERS, etc.).
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the substantial impact that infectious disease outbreaks can have on today’s highly connected world. We thus need to address these challenges on two fronts. First, we need to continually develop better diagnostic tools that can provide early detection of pathogens, agents of infectious diseases. Second, given the diversity of these pathogens and the heterogeneity of ways in which the human immune system may be primed to control and provide protection, there is an urgent need to design and develop multiple different platforms for next-generation vaccines.
With increasingly new outbreaks of infectious diseases in recent years, e.g., the multi-country outbreak of Monkeypox disease in 2022, it is very important that we identify precise and practical targets for designing effective diagnostics that can be quickly translated into development. In addition, increasing the availability of new vaccine design platforms such as mRNA and viral vector technologies as well as the progress in peptide-based multi-epitope vaccines, including in identifying precise and potent targets for the design of effective vaccines against emerging infectious diseases, is needed now more than ever.
Articles and reviews detailing the design of next-generation diagnostics and vaccines for any of emerging infectious disease are welcome.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Syed Faraz Ahmed
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emerging infectious diseases
- next-generation diagnostics
- vaccine development
- HIV infection
- filovirus diseases
- flavivirus diseases
- Nipah virus infection
- coronaviruses
- monkeypox disease
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