Emerging Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases—2nd Edition
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 101
Special Issue Editor
Interests: infectious diseases; vector-borne diseases; zoonoses; epidemiology; risk analysis; biosecurity
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Dear Colleagues,
During the past decade, emerging vector-borne diseases and zoonotic diseases have occurred in areas where they had been previously eradicated or never been recorded before. The objectives of the second edition of this Special Issue are the following: (i) understanding the drivers of these diseases’ (re-)emergence; (ii) prioritization of these diseases and/or their vectors based on a multidisciplinary and evidence-based method; (iii) assessment of their spatio-temporal pattern (trend observation or trend analysis); (iii) signal capture of these diseases’ (re-)emergence; (iv) epidemiology of these diseases including participatory epidemiology and citizen science; (v) improvement of laboratory diagnostic capacities towards these diseases; (vi) estimation of their the costs for animals, environment and humans in case of zoonoses; and (vii) proposition of some mitigation measures or strategies to decrease their impacts/consequences on the host population(s), including biosecurity. Review papers including systematic reviews and meta-analyses as well as original papers on the matter that contribute to the outlined objectives are welcome. The second edition of this Special Issue is a perfect opportunity to combine several disciplines to better understand the emerging vector-borne diseases and zoonotic diseases.
I would like to invite colleagues investigating any of the emerging vector-borne diseases and zoonotic diseases within the above objectives to submit their manuscripts to this Special Issue in the form of original research and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Claude Saegerman
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emerging diseases
- vector-borne diseases
- zoonotic diseases
- drivers
- prioritisation
- ranking
- trend analysis
- capacity
- diagnostic
- management
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