Foot and Mouth Disease Virus Vaccines Developments
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Veterinary Vaccines".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 June 2023) | Viewed by 6502
Special Issue Editors
Interests: foot-and-mouth disease virus; safer foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccine; virus–host interaction
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: novel vaccines; improved stability; alternative routes of immunisation and resulting immune responses; correlates of protection
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is a highly contagious viral infection of cloven-hoofed animals. FMDV outbreaks cause significant and devastating economic impacts worldwide. The most effective and widely accepted way to respond to outbreaks is through the use of chemically inactivated vaccination of domestic livestock. However, these inactivated vaccines are slow-acting and do not always permit a distinction between infected and vaccinated animals. Therefore, it is essential to develop new rapid vaccines and control strategies that could confer early protection and rapidly stop disease spread.
This Special Issue will cover the FMDV determinant of replication and pathogenesis and how this information facilitates next-generation FMDV vaccine and biotherapeutic developments. We particularly encourage the submission of manuscripts focused on improved control strategies addressing important gaps in the current inactivated FMDV vaccine including, but not limited to, duration of immunity, cross-reactivity, correlates of protection, early protection, antigen load, immunization responses, and safer marker vaccines.
Dr. Katherine Pflaum
Dr. Wilna Vosloo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- foot-and-mouth disease virus
- vaccine
- infection and immunity
- next-generation FMDV vaccines
- cellular and humoral immunity
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