The Constant Threat of Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Emerging Tropical Diseases: Living on the Edge

doi:10.3389/fitd.2021.676905

Editorial

. 2021 May 4:2:676905.

doi: 10.3389/fitd.2021.676905. eCollection 2021.

The Constant Threat of Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Emerging Tropical Diseases: Living on the Edge

Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales^{1

2

3

4}, Alberto E Paniz-Mondolfi^{5

6}, Álvaro A Faccini-Martínez⁷, Andrés F Henao-Martínez⁸, Julian Ruiz-Saenz⁹, Marlen Martinez-Gutierrez^{9

10}, Lucia E Alvarado-Arnez³, Jorge E Gomez-Marin¹¹, Ruben Bueno-Marí^{12

13}, Yenddy Carrero¹⁴, Wilmer E Villamil-Gomez^{15

16}, D Katterine Bonilla-Aldana¹⁷, Ubydul Haque¹⁸, Juan D Ramirez¹⁹, Juan-Carlos Navarro²⁰, Susana Lloveras²¹, Kovy Arteaga-Livias^{4

22}, Cristina Casalone²³, Jorge L Maguiña⁴, Angel A Escobedo²⁴, Marylin Hidalgo²⁵, Antonio C Bandeira²⁶, Salim Mattar²⁷, Jaime A Cardona-Ospina^{1

2}, Jose A Suárez²⁸

Affiliations

¹ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Pereira, Colombia.
² Emerging Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Group, Instituto para la Investigación en Ciencias Biomédicas - Sci-Help, Pereira, Colombia.
³ Coordinación Nacional de Investigación, Universidad Privada Franz Tamayo (UNIFRANZ), Cochabamba, Bolivia.
⁴ Master Program on Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru.
⁵ Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine, Laboratory of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States.
⁶ Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas IDB/Incubadora Venezolana de la Ciencia, Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
⁷ Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States.
⁸ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, United States.
⁹ Grupo de Investigación en Ciencias Animales - GRICA, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
¹⁰ Infettare, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia.
¹¹ Grupo de Estudio en Parasitologia Molecular (GEPAMOL) Group, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, Colombia.
¹² Departamento de Investigación y Desarrollo (I+D), Laboratorios Lokímica, Paterna, Spain.
¹³ Área de Parasitología, Departamento de Farmacia y Tecnología Farmaceútica y Parasitología, Universidad de Valencia, Burjasot, Spain.
¹⁴ Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Carrera de Medicina, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ambato, Ecuador.
¹⁵ Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Research Group, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Colombia.
¹⁶ Programa Del Doctorado de Medicina Tropical, SUE Caribe, Universidad Del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia.
¹⁷ Semillero de Investigación en Zoonosis (SIZOO), Grupo de Investigación BIOECOS, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Pereira, Colombia.
¹⁸ Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, United States.
¹⁹ Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología-UR (CIMBIUR), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
²⁰ Research Group of Emerging Diseases, Ecoepidemiology and Biodiversity, Health Sciences Faculty, Universidad Internacional SEK, Quito, Ecuador.
²¹ Sección Zoopatología Médica, Hospital de Infecciosas FJ Muñiz, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
²² Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán, Huánuco, Peru.
²³ Istituto Zooprofilattico del Piemonte, Torino, Italy.
²⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Gastroenterology, Havana, Cuba.
²⁵ Infectious Diseases Group, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
²⁶ Faculdade de Medicina, UniFTC, Salvador, Brazil.
²⁷ Instituto de Investigaciones Biologicas del Tropico, Universidad de Cordoba, Monteria, Colombia.
²⁸ Investigador SNI Senacyt Panamá, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud (ICGES), Panama, Panama.

PMID: 34010366
PMCID: PMC8132189
DOI: 10.3389/fitd.2021.676905

Editorial

The Constant Threat of Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Emerging Tropical Diseases: Living on the Edge

Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales et al. Front Trop Dis. 2021.

. 2021 May 4:2:676905.

doi: 10.3389/fitd.2021.676905. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Pereira, Colombia.
² Emerging Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Group, Instituto para la Investigación en Ciencias Biomédicas - Sci-Help, Pereira, Colombia.
³ Coordinación Nacional de Investigación, Universidad Privada Franz Tamayo (UNIFRANZ), Cochabamba, Bolivia.
⁴ Master Program on Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru.
⁵ Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine, Laboratory of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States.
⁶ Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas IDB/Incubadora Venezolana de la Ciencia, Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
⁷ Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States.
⁸ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, United States.
⁹ Grupo de Investigación en Ciencias Animales - GRICA, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
¹⁰ Infettare, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia.
¹¹ Grupo de Estudio en Parasitologia Molecular (GEPAMOL) Group, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, Colombia.
¹² Departamento de Investigación y Desarrollo (I+D), Laboratorios Lokímica, Paterna, Spain.
¹³ Área de Parasitología, Departamento de Farmacia y Tecnología Farmaceútica y Parasitología, Universidad de Valencia, Burjasot, Spain.
¹⁴ Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Carrera de Medicina, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ambato, Ecuador.
¹⁵ Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Research Group, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Colombia.
¹⁶ Programa Del Doctorado de Medicina Tropical, SUE Caribe, Universidad Del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia.
¹⁷ Semillero de Investigación en Zoonosis (SIZOO), Grupo de Investigación BIOECOS, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Pereira, Colombia.
¹⁸ Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, United States.
¹⁹ Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología-UR (CIMBIUR), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
²⁰ Research Group of Emerging Diseases, Ecoepidemiology and Biodiversity, Health Sciences Faculty, Universidad Internacional SEK, Quito, Ecuador.
²¹ Sección Zoopatología Médica, Hospital de Infecciosas FJ Muñiz, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
²² Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán, Huánuco, Peru.
²³ Istituto Zooprofilattico del Piemonte, Torino, Italy.
²⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Gastroenterology, Havana, Cuba.
²⁵ Infectious Diseases Group, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
²⁶ Faculdade de Medicina, UniFTC, Salvador, Brazil.
²⁷ Instituto de Investigaciones Biologicas del Tropico, Universidad de Cordoba, Monteria, Colombia.
²⁸ Investigador SNI Senacyt Panamá, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud (ICGES), Panama, Panama.

PMID: 34010366
PMCID: PMC8132189
DOI: 10.3389/fitd.2021.676905

No abstract available

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-2; challenges; emerging; tropical diseases; vector-borne diseases; zoonotic diseases.

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Conflict of interest statement

RB-M was employed by Laboratorios Lokímica, Spain. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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[1] Alfaro-Toloza P, Clouet-Huerta DE, Rodriguez-Morales AJ. Chikungunya, the Emerging Migratory Rheumatism. Lancet Infect Dis (2015) 15(5):510–2. 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)70160-X - DOI - PubMed

[2] Alfaro-Toloza P, Clouet-Huerta DE, Rodriguez-Morales AJ. Chikungunya, the Emerging Migratory Rheumatism. Lancet Infect Dis (2015) 15(5):510–2. 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)70160-X - DOI - PubMed

[3] McArthur DB. Emerging Infectious Diseases. Nurs Clin North Am (2019) 54(2):297–311. 10.1016/j.cnur.2019.02.006 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[4] McArthur DB. Emerging Infectious Diseases. Nurs Clin North Am (2019) 54(2):297–311. 10.1016/j.cnur.2019.02.006 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[5] Shi Z. Emerging Infectious Diseases Associated With Bat Viruses. Sci China Life Sci (2013) 56(8):678–82. 10.1007/s11427-013-4517-x - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[6] Shi Z. Emerging Infectious Diseases Associated With Bat Viruses. Sci China Life Sci (2013) 56(8):678–82. 10.1007/s11427-013-4517-x - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[7] Liu SL, Saif L. Emerging Viruses Without Borders: The Wuhan Coronavirus. Viruses (2020) 12(2):130. 10.3390/v12020130 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[8] Liu SL, Saif L. Emerging Viruses Without Borders: The Wuhan Coronavirus. Viruses (2020) 12(2):130. 10.3390/v12020130 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[9] Gill CM, Beckham JD, Piquet AL, Tyler KL, Pastula DM. Five Emerging Neuroinvasive Arboviral Diseases: Cache Valley, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Jamestown Canyon, Powassan, and Usutu. Semin Neurol (2019) 39(4):419–27. 10.1055/s-0039-1687839 - DOI - PubMed

[10] Gill CM, Beckham JD, Piquet AL, Tyler KL, Pastula DM. Five Emerging Neuroinvasive Arboviral Diseases: Cache Valley, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Jamestown Canyon, Powassan, and Usutu. Semin Neurol (2019) 39(4):419–27. 10.1055/s-0039-1687839 - DOI - PubMed

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