About this Research Topic
A zoonotic disease is a disease that can be transmitted between animals and humans. Zoonotic diseases can be caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi. Some of these diseases are very common. For zoonotic diseases caused by parasites, symptoms and signs may vary between parasites and people. Sometimes people with zoonotic infections become very ill or can cause death, while others have no symptoms and never get sick. Others may experience symptoms such as diarrhoea, muscle aches and fever. Food, domestic and wild animals, and vectors can spread the parasite.
The study of zoonotic diseases is booming due to the recent pandemics suffered by the world's population. The lack of knowledge of many of them aggravates the problem of their detection, treatment, and control. From the parasitological point of view, there are many very important zoonotic diseases which, due to global warming, are increasing exponentially, in addition to other factors such as the exchange of animals and people through travel or purchases, the introduction of new vectors to areas previously free of any type of parasitic disease, etc.
This Research Topic would like to advance in the knowledge of all those zoonotic parasitic diseases and those that could potentially be, and to be able to exchange information about them in relation to their biology, epidemiology, local, regional, country or global, advances in diagnosis, treatment and control, as well as the study of parasite/host relationships, studies in relation to their proteome, immunome and from the molecular point of view, new vaccinal and diagnostic tools. Original manuscripts, clinical cases, short manuscripts, and reviews will be considered.
Keywords: Zoonosis, One Health, humans, animals, wildlife
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