Advances in Surveillance of Animal Diseases
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal System and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 1953
Special Issue Editors
Interests: epidemiology; biosecurity; surveillance; evaluation of surveillance systems; risk analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: veterinary epidemiology; disease surveillance; veterinary public health; health impacts of climate change; One Health; outbreak investigation; evaluation of diagnostic tests
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We live in a constantly changing world, and the key to meeting future challenges is accurate and effective disease surveillance of animals. We have long understood the need for surveillance systems to ensure that transboundary diseases, such as African swine fever, are detected and eradicated quickly. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the requirement for a One Health approach to surveillance that integrates animal, human and environmental health data.
A truly integrated One Health approach will provide us with the best chance to detect new and emerging pathogens, such as COVID-19, rapidly. Linking human and animal health data with environmental data will also enable us to better forecast disease, which is particularly important when preparing for the challenges of climate change. A One Health surveillance system may also include data on our pets, and provide early warnings of changes in non-infectious diseases, such as cancer.
Surveillance systems must also consider how to best utilize technology advances (“infodemiology”) that provide access to a larger quantity and complexity of data. Some of the data are obtained from laboratories, which play a central role in providing affordable, accurate diagnostic tests.
This Special Issue has a broad scope and aim, in order to provide an overview of the advances in all aspects of the surveillance of infectious and non-infectious diseases in animals. Researchers are invited to submit both original research articles and systematic reviews.
Dr. Naomi Cogger
Dr. Emilie Vallée
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- surveillance
- integrated surveillance
- One Health
- endemic
- zoonoses
- epidemiology
- climate change
- infectious diseases
- non-infectious diseases
