Emergence and Control of African Swine Fever
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Viral Pathogens".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 31371
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Interests: evolution; pathogenesis; vaccines
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Interests: virology; virus–host interactions; vaccines; innate immunity; RNA virus; DNA virus; foreign animal diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
African swine fever (ASF) is a highly lethal and contagious viral disease found in domestic pigs, wild boars and wild suids which has significant economic consequences. Currently, this disease is endemic in many parts of the world, but with no effective commercial vaccine for prevention and control, the threat of ASF spreading to ASF-free regions is more prominent. The recent identification of ASF in the Americas for the first time in almost 40 years demonstrates the urgent need to develop novel countermeasures to control this disease.
This Special Issue will focus on understanding the different factors associated with the emergence of African swine fever and the need to establish control strategies to mitigate the propagation of this virus worldwide. For this purpose, the scope of this issue is open to the submission of manuscripts associated with multiple aspects of the biology of African swine fever virus, including the epidemiology, evolution, pathogenesis, vaccines, drug development and diagnostics.
This Special Issue welcomes a variety of manuscript types, including original research papers, methods papers, reviews, mini-reviews, perspectives, hypotheses and theoretical works, case reports, letters to the editor, brief research reports, commentaries, opinions, editorials and technology and codes. Authors must follow the authors’ guidelines in the preparation of their manuscripts.
We look forward to your valuable contributions that will promote further developments in this field.
Thank you for your collaboration.
Dr. Lauro Velazquez-Salinas
Dr. Gisselle N. Medina
Dr. Elizabeth Ramirez-Medina
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- African swine fever (ASF)
- epidemiology
- evolution
- pathogenesis
- vaccines
- drug development
- diagnostics