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Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases

New Content ItemInfectious diseases pose a critical threat to global health security with high morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Many infectious agents have emerged and reemerged in recent decades due to the dynamic host–pathogen interactions, partially driven by anthropogenic selection, niche adaptation and climate change. These factors present major challenges to the public health and agricultural systems through the constant need for the development of cost-effective diagnosis, prevention, and therapeutic strategies, in addition to maintaining real-time epidemiological surveillance. Current control measures based on rapid diagnosis, conventional vaccination, quarantine, and culling of affected animals have not been sufficient to stop those emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, including ASFV in pigs and COVID-19 in humans, from becoming major veterinary public health issues to the globe public health crisis.

In response to this, the Special Issue “Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases” will focus on COVID-19, ASFV, Ebola, Influenza, ZIKA, and other recent bacterial, parasitic, fungal diseases of major veterinary and public health importance.

Topics of interest include:

  • Molecular surveillance and epidemiology 
  • Clinical investigation of emerging or re-emerging infectious disease, including newly characterized zoonotic pathogens or their variants
  • Innovative strategies for pathogen detection, drug and vaccine development, and disease control and prevention
  • Influence of global warming on emerging and re-emerging diseases
  • One health, biosecurity and public health issues related to pathogen emergence or re-emergence
  • Review or opinion regarding timely emerging or re-emerging infectious disease, including policy and planning for the control of infections
  • Other explorative research in understanding pathogen and host interactions within the topic

Articles will undergo all of the journal's standard peer review and editorial processes outlined in its submission guidelines.

Editorial Board

Guest Editor: Lihua Xiao

Associate Editor of Animal Diseases
Professor of Veterinary Parasitology, South China Agricultural University, China
Email: lxiao@scau.edu.cn

Guest Editor: Min Yue 

Board member of Animal Diseases
Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University, China
Email: myue@zju.edu.cn

Science Editor: Fang He

Board member of Animal Diseases
Professor of Veterinary Virology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University, China
Email: hefangzj@zju.edu.cn

Science Editor: Wentao Li

Professor of Veterinary Virology, College of Animal Sciences & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Email: wentao@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Articles published in this collection:


  1. Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is an emerging swine enteropathogenic coronavirus that can cause acute diarrhea and vomiting in newborn piglets and poses a potential risk for cross-species transmission. It is...

    Authors: Wei Wang, Baochao Fan, Xuehan Zhang, Shanshan Yang, Junming Zhou, Rongli Guo, Yongxiang Zhao, Jinzhu Zhou, Jizong Li and Bin Li
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2024 4:30
  2. Variations in the pathogenicity of Newcastle disease virus (NDV), the agent causing Newcastle disease, are associated with variants of different virulence. A few studies have characterized the expression of mi...

    Authors: Weiwei Liu, Zejun Xu, Siyuan Wang, Cuiping Song, Xusheng Qiu, Lei Tan, Yingjie Sun, Ying Liao, Guijun Wang, Xiufan Liu and Chan Ding
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2023 3:21
  3. Mosquito-borne infections are of global health concern because of their rapid spread and upsurge, which creates a risk for coinfections. chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arbovirus disease transmitted by Aedes aegypt...

    Authors: Peter Asaga Mac, Philomena E. Airiohuodion, Raman Velayudhan, Shaistha Zubair, Markos Tadele, Jude, O. Aighobahi, Chukwuma Anyaike, Axel Kroeger and Marcus Panning
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2023 3:7

    The Correction to this article has been published in Animal Diseases 2023 3:9

  4. African swine fever (ASF) is a highly lethal disease of domestic and wild swine caused by African swine fever virus (ASFV). The disease currently circulates in Africa, Europe, Asia and on the island of Hispani...

    Authors: Daniel W. Madden, Sun-Young Sunwoo, Natasha N. Gaudreault, Jessie D. Trujillo, Igor Morozov, Carmina Gallardo and Juergen A. Richt
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:14
  5. African swine fever virus (ASFV) is an important pathogen causing acute infectious disease in domestic pigs and wild boars that seriously endangers the global swine industry. As ASFV is structurally complex an...

    Authors: Mingyang Cheng, Jiawei Luo, Yuetong Duan, Yu Yang, Chunwei Shi, Yu Sun, Yiyuan Lu, Junhong Wang, Xiaoxu Li, Jianzhong Wang, Nan Wang, Wentao Yang, Yanlong Jiang, Guilian Yang, Yan Zeng, Chunfeng Wang…
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:13
  6. The H9N2 subtype avian influenza virus (AIV) inactivated vaccine has been used extensively in poultry farms, but it often fails to stimulate a sufficiently high immune response in poultry in the field, althoug...

    Authors: Xue Pan, Xin Su, Pingyun Ding, Jinhua Zhao, Hongrui Cui, Dawei Yan, Qiaoyang Teng, Xuesong Li, Nancy Beerens, Haitao Zhang, Qinfang Liu, Mart C. M. de Jong and Zejun Li
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:9