Innovative Therapeutic Strategies for Neglected and Emerging Disease
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Parasitology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 4144
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neglected and emergent diseases; virus; vaccine; treatment; chemoinformatics; zoonoses; antivirals; pathogen–host interactions; innate immunity; epidemiology
Interests: parasitic protozoa; host–parasite interactions; novel antiparasitic agents
Interests: HIV infection; measles prevention; surveillance; vaccination coverage
Interests: host–microbe interactions; bacterial virulence mechanisms; type III secretion system; shigellosis; functional gene analysis; neglected infection diseases
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a Guest Editor of this Special Issue, I invite you to submit research articles, review articles, and short communications related to human systemic protozoal infections that are the cause of different neglected and emergent diseases. This topic is broken down into three subtopics with the aim to discuss the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of these diseases.
- Intestinal protozoa: Cryptosporidium, Eimeria, Coccidia, Isospora, Giardia, Entamoeba;
- Blood protozoa: Plasmodium, Babesia, African Trypanosomes;
- Systemic protozoa: Toxoplasma, Neospora, Sarcocystis, Trichomonas, Trypanosoma cruzi, Leishmania.
Neglected and emergent diseases remain a significant public health and economic burden worldwide. The threat is further deepened by the continued emergence of new (most of which are zoonotic), unrecognized, and old infectious disease epidemics of global impact. Climate change, globalization of trade and travel, and recrudescence across time of different pathogens presents a challenge to the management of these diseases. The need of treatment or vaccines is an urgent task for the parasite research community. This research topic will provide an adequate multidisciplinary platform for the interchange of valuable information (both basic and applied research) that feeds the next wave of drug and vaccine development. This Special Issue will present recent updates on emerging and neglected infectious diseases organized in the three subtopics mentioned above and highlight the scope, dynamics, and advances in infectious disease management.
The Special Issue will bring together different approaches and innovative discoveries in different diseases to look for solutions to the current problems of infectious diseases.
Dr. Kamal El Bissati
Dr. William Harold Witola
Dr. Hicham Oumzil
Dr. Abdelmounaaim Allaoui
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- human systemic protozoal infections
- intestinal protozoa
- blood protozoa
- systemic protozoa
- parasite