Molecular Research on Vector-Borne Diseases of Medical Interest: From Bench to Application: 3rd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 June 2024) | Viewed by 316
Special Issue Editor
Interests: parasitology; microbiology; host-vector-pathogen interactions; molecular diagnosis; chemoresistance; medical entomology
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Dear Colleagues,
Vector-borne infectious diseases due to parasites (malaria, leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis, filariasis, etc.), viruses (chikungunya, dengue, phlebovirus, etc.), or bacteria (bartonellosis, Lyme disease) cause a significant fraction of the global infectious disease burden; indeed, nearly half of the world’s population is infected with at least one type of vector-borne pathogen. Understanding the molecular basis of interactions between these pathogens and their hosts (vertebrate and invertebrate) would be the rationale for developing new tools that aim to interrupt the transmission process and/or control infection. Nevertheless, translating innovations and knowledge into applications remains challenging. The proposed Special Issue on “Molecular Research on Vector-Borne Diseases of Medical Interest: From Bench to Application” aims to document advances in the etiology, pathogenesis, immunology, and transmission processes and their translation into tools to detect, combat, or prevent vector-borne disease. Original articles, narrative reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, viewpoints, opinions, and perspectives on new technological developments and breakthroughs in vector-borne diseases are welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the biochemistry and molecular biology of pathogens and vectors and their interaction, the application of new technologies to vector-borne disease diagnosis, novel approaches for blocking disease transmission, studies on the determinants of vectorial competence and prevalence of infections in the field, the molecular epidemiology of vector-borne diseases, and microbiological or metagenomic analyses of microbiomes/viromes associated with arthropod vectors, along with their interaction with pathogens, vaccines, drug development, and drug resistance.
Dr. Denis Sereno
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- vector-borne infectious diseases
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