Transboundary and Emerging Diseases brings together in one place the latest research on infectious diseases considered to hold the greatest economic threat to animals and humans worldwide. The journal provides a venue for global research on their diagnosis, prevention and management, and for papers on public health, pathogenesis, epidemiology, statistical modeling, diagnostics, biosecurity issues, genomics, vaccine development and rapid communication of new outbreaks. Papers should include timely research approaches using state-of-the-art technologies. The editors encourage papers adopting a science-based approach on socio-economic and environmental factors influencing the management of the bio-security threat posed by these diseases, including risk analysis and disease spread modeling. Preference will be given to communications focusing on novel science-based approaches to controlling transboundary and emerging diseases. Pathogen discovery — when not accompanied by insights into disease emergence and spread — generally is considered out of scope. Risk factor studies for disease or pathogen presence (versus emergence and spread) using a cross-sectional survey approach likewise are generally considered out of scope.
This international journal provides rapid publication of original papers, short communications, reviews, selected abstracts and outbreak alerts.