With the development of COVID-19, more and more researchers are aware of the importance of identifying the sources of infection. Novel coronavirus, detected on a variety of animals, and even packaging surface have been traced as the sources of infection to spread COVID-19. New detection methods, such as VIROME, Metagenome, sRNA-seq, and so on, are widely used in the detection of various pathogens. Using these techniques, new animal hosts or vectors of various pathogens including bacteria, fungi, viruses, protozoan and helminth parasites are found. Many of these new infectious agents are related to medical arthropod vectors. Such findings are of great significance in the prevention and control of related diseases, and hence, deserve more attention.
Through this research topic, we would like to bring attention to the new infection sources from arthropod vectors and thereby steer the research direction in the discovery of new pathogens from such sources. This will also play a vital role in the prevention and control of diseases. The discovery of such pathogens are driven through next generation sequencing (NGS), including VIROME and Metagenome, as well as other specific sequencing technologies. This information combined with the transmission evidence from infection can aid in the determination of "new infectious agents".
The current Research Topic welcome submissions of Original Research, Review, Mini Review, Hypothesis and Theory, Dispatches, Opinion and Perspective focusing on:
1) New infectious agents in mosquitoes
2) New infectious agents in ticks
3) New infectious agents in flies, fleas, midges and other blood-sucking vectors
With the development of COVID-19, more and more researchers are aware of the importance of identifying the sources of infection. Novel coronavirus, detected on a variety of animals, and even packaging surface have been traced as the sources of infection to spread COVID-19. New detection methods, such as VIROME, Metagenome, sRNA-seq, and so on, are widely used in the detection of various pathogens. Using these techniques, new animal hosts or vectors of various pathogens including bacteria, fungi, viruses, protozoan and helminth parasites are found. Many of these new infectious agents are related to medical arthropod vectors. Such findings are of great significance in the prevention and control of related diseases, and hence, deserve more attention.
Through this research topic, we would like to bring attention to the new infection sources from arthropod vectors and thereby steer the research direction in the discovery of new pathogens from such sources. This will also play a vital role in the prevention and control of diseases. The discovery of such pathogens are driven through next generation sequencing (NGS), including VIROME and Metagenome, as well as other specific sequencing technologies. This information combined with the transmission evidence from infection can aid in the determination of "new infectious agents".
The current Research Topic welcome submissions of Original Research, Review, Mini Review, Hypothesis and Theory, Dispatches, Opinion and Perspective focusing on:
1) New infectious agents in mosquitoes
2) New infectious agents in ticks
3) New infectious agents in flies, fleas, midges and other blood-sucking vectors