Emerging Arboviruses: Epidemiology, Vector Dynamics, and Pathogenesis
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Viral Pathogens".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2024 | Viewed by 2493
Special Issue Editor
2. Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Interests: cell host and viral interactions; endothelial cell biology; virus pathogenesis; arboviruses, flavivirus; vector control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last few decades, the continuous emerging and re-emerging of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) causing clinically important human epidemics such as the dengue viruses (DENV serotypes 1 to 4), yellow fever virus (YFV), West Nile virus (WNV), chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and Zika virus (ZIKV), have posed an enormous burden on the public health systems worldwide. In the meantime, other less common but not less important arboviruses such as Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV), Spondweni virus (SPOV), St Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV), Usutu virus (USUV), O'nyong nyong virus (ONNV), Powassan virus (PWV) and Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV), among others, are uninterruptedly growing in specific regions of the world leading to significant mortality and morbidity rates in human populations. Whilst many determinants of these arbovirus emergence and dispersal have an anthropological basis, their intensification and rapid geographical expansion is largely due to the intensive growth of global transportation systems and arthropod adaptation to increasing urbanization. These factors associated to our failure to contain the vector population density increases and land perturbation enhances the exposure frequency of humans to arboviruses vectors such as mosquitoes and potentially to more arbovirus transmissions.
Currently, it is estimated that around more than 70% of emerging infectious diseases in humans have a zoonotic origin, with up to one third of these emerging infectious diseases being caused by vector-borne pathogens, resulting in more than 700,000 deaths annually. As many arboviruses can infect a wide variety of arthropods and other animals (e.g., horses, birds and lizards) in their sylvatic habitats and humans as incidental hosts, the global population at risk from arboviruses is expanding and for many of them, no suitable antiviral therapy or vaccine is available to defeat them. Therefore, this Special Issue of Pathogens aims to gather a unique collection of recent advances and insights in research strategies for emerging and re-emerging arboviruses of human and animal public health concerns will focus on understanding the state-of-the-art in epidemiology, vector dynamics, diagnostics, pathogenesis, vaccines, antivirals and other mitigation methods to control/prevent the transmission of arboviral diseases.
Dr. Henry Puerta-Guardo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- arboviruses
- emerging
- re-emerging
- epidemiology
- vector dynamics
- pathogenesis
- vector control strategies
- human
- animal
