Emerging and Re-emerging Animal Viral Diseases and Viral Diseases with Zoonotic Potential

Dear Colleagues,

Disease prevention and control on livestock and poultry farms bring considerable benefits not only to the farm animal industry, but also to food safety, animal welfare, the trade of animals and their products, and public health. People’s health is directly linked to that of animals and the environment. For this reason, a coordinated effort, with an approach that encompasses animal, human and environmental health (concept “One Health”) is essential to deal with guarantees the management of future problems caused by infectious agents.

This Special Issue aims to show novel and high impact results in the field of emerging and re-emerging viral diseases that may affect livestock, poultry and wild animals, and that can also cause disease in humans (zoonoses). The current issue will be opened not just to manuscripts focused on vaccine development and new antigen discovery, but also to studies focused on viruses replication and spread, viruses transmission, pathogenic mechanisms, virus–host interactions, immune response induced against virus infections, immune mechanisms involved in protection or any other state-of- the-art study that might contribute to prevent and control these viral diseases in livestock and the transmission from animal to human.

We encourage authors to present original results obtained after carrying out “in vivo” experiments that require the use of small animal models (e.g., murine models), as well as natural or intermediate hosts. We will also consider "in vitro" studies. Only high-quality reviews tackling novel issues in the field will be considered.

Dr. Giulia Franzoni
Dr. Miriam Pedrera
Dr. Pedro J. Sanchez-Cordon
Guest Editors

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• viral diseases
• livestock
• poultry
• wild animals
• zoonoses
• experimental animal models
• vaccines
• immune response
• pathogenic mechanisms
• virus–host interactions
• virus replication, spread and transmission