One Health and Neglected Zoonotic Diseases
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Emerging Pathogens".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 14055
Special Issue Editors
Interests: infectious and parasitic diseases; tropical medicine; travel medicine
2. Institute of Collective Health, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Interests: One Health; zoonotic diseases; infectious diseases
Interests: medical mycology; endemic mycoses; neglected diseases; sporotrichosis; paracoccidioidomycosis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The One Health concept emphasizes the importance of working collaboratively at the human–animal–ecosystem interface to predict, prevent, detect, respond to, and control infectious diseases. To understand disease transmission, it is important to review some definitions; the host or reservoir of a pathogen is the habitat in which the agent normally lives, grows, and multiplies while the host could be animals, humans, or the environment. It is estimated that 61% of human pathogens worldwide are zoonoses, a subgroup that comprises 75% of all emerging pathogens of the past decade. COVID-19 exposed the gaps in scientists’ knowledge on how diseases could spillover from animals to humans. This Special Issue therefore aims to discuss the current status and root causes of zoonotic diseases and the human–animal interphase.
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Pereira Igreja
Dr. Maria Cristina Schneider
Dr. Priscila Marques de Macedo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pathogen spillover
- emerging zoonoses
- One Health
- environment
- neglected zoonotic diseases
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