title: Preface - Emerging Viruses: From Early Detection to Intervention.
abstract: In the last decades, several viruses emerged, as the consequence of cross-species passage from animal reservoirs to human being. Emerging infections always represent a significant challenge for public health system as knowledge about specific pathogens are generally little while and no/few effective interventions are available. In this volume we explored special aspects of emerging infectious diseases including: the application of the theory of focality of diseases to infective syndrome; the human-animal inter-face focusing on influenza; the role of bats as main reservoir of emerging and novel human pathogens; Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) epidemiology and clinical presentation; immediate impact on human health of the last Zika virus outbreak occurred in Pacific Ocean and the Americas; the role and potential application of animal models for the study of emerging infections, to improve disease knowledge and for developing therapeutic drugs during ongoing outbreak.
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy. giuseppe.ippolito@inmi.it.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ippolito
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rezza
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000821:virology*; D016358:Contact Tracing; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D014765:Viral Vaccines / Q000276:immunology; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000821:virology*
chemical_list: D014765:Viral Vaccines
keywords: Diagnostics; Emergence; Emerging infections; Quarantine; Vaccine