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25/12/2025

🎊Season’s Greetings from Pathogens MDPI!

🎁Thanks to everyone who contributed their invaluable insights to our work.

🎉Wishing you all a happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year.

Looking forward to even bigger breakthroughs together in 2026!🎄

18/12/2025

📍Planning your conference calendar for 2026 already?

Tell us which pathogens-related events you’ll be attending or recommending.

If you have a conference collaboration in mind, feel free to let us know via this short form: https://brnw.ch/21wYuV2

Your suggestions help us decide where Pathogens should be present next.

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Help us identify pathogen-related conferences to attend in 2026

18/12/2025

Diagnostics, virus–host interactions, epidemiology, zoonotic potential - these are just some of the themes covered in the Special Issue "Current Challenges in Veterinary Virology"

With 16 papers already published, this Special Issue remains open to new submissions until 30 May 2026.

Learn more and contribute: https://brnw.ch/21wYs2o

18/12/2025

A full year of Pathogens research, at a glance 👀

Explore all issues published in 2025, covering a wide range of topics across infectious diseases, host–pathogen interactions, and more.

Explore: https://brnw.ch/21wYs1m

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16/12/2025

📘 The Special Issue "Chagas Disease: Celebrating the 115th Anniversary of the Discovery of Trypanosoma cruzi” is now available as a reprint book.

Explore the book: https://brnw.ch/21wYpBe

Spanning 338 pages and 18 peer-reviewed articles, the volume is available as a free PDF or as a hardback edition.

This special issue of Pathogens aims to provide an overview of the latest scientific advances in the study and control of Chagas disease, a major health problem in Latin America. Key contributions from basic research, applied research, and public health measures are highlighted. The prominent contri...

16/12/2025

A four-year comparison of community- vs. hospital-acquired UTIs reveals distinct patterns of antibiotic resistance and biofilm formation among uropathogens.

Read now: https://brnw.ch/21wYpm9

The aim of this study was to investigate the differences between nosocomial and community microorganisms isolated from patients with UTI by determining their bacterial profile, antibiotic resistance and ability to produce biofilms. A retrospective study, based on bacterial isolates from consecutive ...

16/12/2025

The Special Issue “Oral Microbiome and Human Systemic Health” continues to attract strong interest, with 15 publications and over 47,000 views so far.

👉 Explore the Special Issue: https://brnw.ch/21wYp68

The Issue remains open for submissions, welcoming new contributions exploring links between oral microbiota and systemic health.

15/12/2025

Understanding invasive Streptococcus pyogenes in clinical practice

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By integrating clinical outcomes with genomic data, this study highlights risk factors for severe invasive S. pyogenes disease and underscores the need for targeted prevention and treatment strategies.

Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus, GAS) is a Gram-positive pathogen responsible for both superficial and invasive infections (iGAS), with increasing global incidence in recent years.

15/12/2025

Raw fish, real risks: anisakid parasites and human health

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As raw and lightly processed seafood consumption increases, anisakid parasites remain an underrecognized cause of foodborne zoonotic infection. This review discusses anisakidosis from a public health perspective, highlighting prevention, diagnosis, and One Health strategies.

🐟How can awareness and prevention reduce the burden of seafood-borne parasitic infections?

15/12/2025

Four decades of tick records: mapping hard tick distribution in Spain

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Drawing on over 30,000 tick specimens collected between 1985 and 2024, this study establishes a historical baseline for hard tick distribution in Spain, providing essential context for understanding long-term ecological and epidemiological change.

A valuable resource for researchers working in vector ecology, One Health, and veterinary public health.

Ticks are important vectors of pathogens, producing diseases in animals and humans. The planning of information campaigns or prevention programs is heavily based on the knowledge of highly detailed data on tick distribution. This study reports unpublished data on the distribution of more than 30,000...

15/12/2025

Tracking West Nile and Usutu viruses through a One Health lens

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This study reports integrated human, animal, and entomological surveillance of West Nile virus and Usutu virus in Northeastern Italy (2022–2023), highlighting how coordinated One Health approaches support early detection and public health preparedness.

🌍 How can integrated surveillance better anticipate arbovirus outbreaks across Europe?

West Nile virus (WNV) and Usutu virus (USUV) are neurotropic mosquito-borne orthoflaviviruses maintained in an enzootic cycle, in which birds are amplifying/reservoir hosts, while humans and equids are dead-end hosts.

15/12/2025

From latent reservoirs to immune control: where do HIV cure strategies stand?

Read more: https://brnw.ch/21wYmEc

Despite decades of progress in antiretroviral therapy, HIV latency remains the key barrier to a cure. This review discusses why LRAs alone may not be enough, and how combination approaches could redefine long-term HIV control.

Which strategies do you think hold the most promise for achieving long-term HIV remission?