Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses Infection
A special issue of Infectious Disease Reports (ISSN 2036-7449).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 3429
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ecology; evolution; epidemiology of high-consequence pathogens
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hemorrhagic fever viruses (HFV) are a group of high-consequence viral pathogens which can lead to multisystem syndromic disease characterized by acute febrile illness, bleeding disorders, and can progress to shock and death. While many HFVs cause relatively mild illness, some, such as Ebola virus disease can lead to multi-year and widespread outbreaks with high case-fatality rates. Other examples of HFV include Marburg virus, Rift Valley fever virus, Hantaviruses, Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Alkhumra virus, South American Hemorrhagic fever viruses (Chapare, Guanarito, Junin, Machupo, Sabia viruses, etc.) Kyasanur Forest disease virus, Omsk hemorrhagic fever, and New World Arenaviruses such as Lujo and Lassa virus. While several key research efforts have revealed answers to HFV pathogenesis, much remains to be learned about how many of these agents aid in the understanding of their ecology, evolution, and epidemiology for future mitigation and countermeasure strategies.
This Special Issue will cover a wide range of topics focusing on viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever and aims to enhance current knowledge of these viruses, host-response, ecological hosts, and the resultant diseases or mitigation of disease. All types of articles will be considered for publication, including short reports, primary research articles, as well as reviews.
We look forward to your contributions!
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Sergio E. Rodriguez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- HFV
- VHF
- viral hemorrhagic fever virus
- virus-host interactions
- virulence factors
- viral pathogenesis
- viral transmission
- arboviral disease
- immune activation and evasion
- adaptive immunity
- therapeutics
- vaccines
- animal models
- viral ecology
- viral epidemiology
- filovirus
- arenavirus
- bunyavirus
- hantavirus
- flavivirus
