Emerging Infectious Diseases and Strategies for Their Prevention and Control
A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366). This special issue belongs to the section "Infectious Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 18
Special Issue Editor
Interests: infection prevention; infection control; emerging infectious diseases; MDR pathogens
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The impact of climate change on the planet is undisputable. Global warming, inducing recorded-high rises in average temperatures, average precipitations/heavy precipitations and extreme weather events, has led to a changing global ecology. This phenomenon has extended the geographic range of pathogenic species, broadened their host limits and led to their selection for adaptive thermotolerance. Emerging infectious diseases, per definition, refer to pathogens that are increasing in their incidence, geographic or host range and virulence, and they are directly causally related to this phenomenon. The COVID-19 pandemic was a shocking paradigm of this. Sensitive surveillance systems and technically up-to-date laboratory testing are a prerequisite to recognizing and containing analogous global health threats in a timely manner. This Special Issue welcomes all types of manuscripts on bacterial, viral and fungal pathogens whose pre-existing circulation pattern is changing and whose worldwide prevalence endangers susceptible human hosts, impacts quality of life, and is anticipated to severely affect national health systems. Manuscripts on the antimicrobial resistance and prevalence of multi-drug resistant pathogens, directly related to excessive antimicrobial use and/or antimicrobial use in animals/plants, are also welcome.
Dr. Athina Pyrpasopoulou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change
- planet
- zoonotic diseases
- emerging infectious diseases
- vector ecology
- antimicrobial resistance
- surveillance
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