Control of Parasites to Promote Sustainable Farm Animals in Endemic and Non-endemic Areas
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2024) | Viewed by 1403
Special Issue Editor
Interests: veterinary parasitology; equine medicine; epidemiology of infectious diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that the open-access journal MDPI-Animals (impact factor: 3.231) is issuing a new Special Issue titled: “Control of Parasites to Promote Sustainable Farm Animals in Endemic and Non-endemic Areas”.
Parasitic pathogens are a major threat to the welfare, health, and productivity of farm animals. Treating parasitic infection has always been challenging, and many parasitic diseases currently do not have effective treatment options. Therefore, in many cases, control strategies rely largely on prevention, rather than treatment. In addition, addressing the treatment and control of parasitic infections differs greatly between endemic and non-endemic areas. In non-endemic areas, the main aim is to prevent infection and to eliminate infection in infected animals in order to reduce the chance of emergence or spread of disease. However, in endemic areas, many parasitic diseases are in a state of enzootic stability and low-grade infection is required to induce immunization in field conditions. In these situations, parasite clearance is not always the goal, and treatment regimens are meant only to reduce parasite load and prevent clinical manifestation. This Special Issue aims to explore the efficacy of available or new treatment and control practices for veterinary parasitic diseases and to highlight the differences in prevention and control approaches in endemic versus non-endemic areas.
The submission deadline is 31 December 2023, and papers may be submitted immediately or at any point until 31 December 2023, as papers will be published on an ongoing basis. For more information on this Special Issue and submission guidelines, please visit the following page:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/animals/special_issues/AA76JT2SKM.
Dr. Sharon Tirosh-Levy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- parasitology
- treatment
- control
- veterinary
- endemic
- enzootic stability
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