Emerging and Re-emerging Infections: Impact on Substances of Human Origin (SoHO)
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Virology and Viral Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 107
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transfusion risk; transfusion transmitted infection (TTI), pathogen reduction; neuroinflammation; neurological infection diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Transfusion-transmissible infectious agents are among the greatest threats to the safety of donated substances of human origin (SoHO) and represent a serious public health problem.
SoHO safety has dramatically increased over the last decades thanks to the adoption of strict criteria for donor selection, the screening of known infections, and the adoption of measures to reduce the risk of transmission through SoHO from donors travelling in areas at risk due to local endemics or unexpected epidemiological events.
In fact, the last decades are characterized by the appearance of a significant number of emerging pathogens, and the reappearance of infectious diseases with global impact, which threaten SoHO safety, for which a preventive vaccination or screening tests for people donating blood, cells and tissues or organs is not always available.
As Guest Editors, we are excited to start a new challenge with this Special Issue. We hope that the document collection in this issue will provide insights into SoHO safety, focusing on blood and blood components, organs, tissue and cells intended for human application and considered essential life-saving therapies, even during outbreaks from newly introduced or re-emerging pathogens.
The information can come from both clinical practice and experimental research, and from an accurate evaluation of the data published in the literature.
We would like to invite our colleagues in science to submit original research or also review articles that provide interesting insights and news in this field.
Dr. Ilaria Pati
Dr. Simonetta Pupella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- substances of human origin (SoHO)
- infectious diseases
- emerging and re-emerging infections
- transmission risk
