Emerging Microbes, Infections and Spillovers, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Viruses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 1341
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Virology, Medicum, University of Helsinki, 00290 Helsinki, Finland
3. Department of Tropical Parasitology, Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, 81-519 Gdynia, Poland
Interests: genomics; metagenomics; microbiology; bioinformatics; viromics
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Interests: One Health; microbiology and microbial evolution; zoonoses; emerging infectious diseases
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Interests: parasites; helminths; parasite ecology; rodents; next-generation sequencing; PCR bioinformatics; ecology; animal ecology; data analysis; DNA extraction; ecology and evolution; molecular biology; genetics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emerging pathogens pose a continuous and significant threat to global health, as evidenced by outbreaks of Ebola and Zika viruses, and more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2. These viruses, along with others like avian influenza and MPOX (formerly known as monkeypox), are zoonotic, meaning they can cross species barriers—a characteristic shared by the majority of emerging pathogens. Globalization and industrialization have drastically increased the vulnerability of human and animal populations to both emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, altering the scale and speed at which outbreaks occur.
As we look to the future, new infectious diseases are expected to remain a major threat to public health worldwide. Many of these diseases are driven by microbes, particularly viruses capable of crossing host species barriers, such as zoonoses, or establishing sustained human-to-human transmission. To effectively detect and control these pathogens, comprehensive studies are required on their reservoirs, vectors, molecular biology, and diagnostics.
Following the success of our previous Special Issue on this theme, we are pleased to invite new manuscript submissions for an upcoming issue. This Special Issue is open to a variety of contributions, including reviews, research articles, and short communications, with a focus on emerging pathogens and viral zoonoses. We welcome topics such as virus discovery, virus–host interactions, pathogenesis, cross-species transmission, virus evolution, reservoirs, and the zoonotic aspects of these diseases, among others.
Dr. Ravi Kant
Dr. Tarja Sironen
Prof. Dr. Maciej Grzybek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- emerging infections
- virus spillovers
- microbes
- cross-species transmission
- virus evolution
- viral disease
- virus reservoirs
- virus–host interaction
- pathogenesis
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