Lumpy Skin Disease: Epidemiology, Phylogeny and Transmission
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 1907
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is still on the rise and continues to challenge research communities worldwide. A great body of data has been published since the first incursions of LSD into Turkey, Balkans, and Russia in 2015–2017, followed by the emergence of recombinant vaccine-like strains formed by an attenuated Neethling vaccine strain and Kenyan KSGP strain. The novel strains have now spread to China, Vietnam, and Thailand; however, in India, another strain is circulating, with no feasible explanations yet provided for why. The plethora of genetic lineages and their novel properties demonstrated up to now clearly highlight the knowledge gaps that concern i) LSD epidemiology in Eurasia with a focus on differences across latitudes, regional features, and climate; ii) molecular evolution in the context of the expansion of recombinant vaccine-like strains; iii) transmission by clinically and subclinically ill animals infected by classical and recombinant isolates; and iv) diagnostics for efficient and reliable diagnosis.
As a guest editor of this Special Issue, I, Alexander Sprygin, invite you to submit research and review articles as well as short communications that contribute to the existing knowledge gaps and to the better understanding of LSD epidemiology, molecular evolution, and diagnostics.
In this regard, research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Field studies reporting epidemiological findings
- Sequencing and NGS studies
- Description of novel recombinant vaccine-like strains
- Description of clinical signs and post-mortem findings observed in the field and under experimental conditions
- Experimental findings on transmission
- Development of diagnostic assays
I look forward to receiving your contributions
Dr. Alexander Sprygin
Guest Editor
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