Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases

Infectious diseases have not been eradicated and continues to threaten humankind worldwide. Post pandemic era show us a vast epidemic diffusion of antibiotic-resistant world, like the data that the WHO show. However, other infectious diseases are reemerging after they have been on a significant decline. Most of these infections have a zoonotic origin, crossing from wildlife and domesticated animals to humans. Globalization, climate change, and other human factors are precipitating the rapid spread. An example of this, are the recent outbreak of cases of Tropical disease, like the West Nile infections in Italy.

Pandemic preparedness will require global collaboration, advance surveillance, rapid diagnostics and therapies in Infectious Disease. This Research Topic aims to carefully observe new infectious emergencies from antimicrobial resistance with MDR germs to new emerging and re-emerging infections, such as viruses and other pathogens.

This Research Topic welcomes different article types as listed in the journal, such as Original Research, Reviews, Case Report, etc. Contributions should be in scope with this collection and the section. Submissions should provide new perspectives to progress and promote further knowledge in the realm of infectious emergencies. We particularly welcome manuscripts providing new insights on antimicrobial resistance, which remains one of the most important challenges in health care today, and those focusing on bacterial pathogens, like viral pathogens, resistant to therapy.

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Classification
• Clinical Trial
• Community Case Study
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• ... View all formats

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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Classification
• Clinical Trial
• Community Case Study
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Policy and Practice Reviews
• Policy Brief
• Review
• Study Protocol
• Systematic Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: Infectious Disease, Emerging MDR Infections, Antibiotic Therapy, Emerging virus infections

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.