Advanced Molecular Progression of Norovirus
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2024 | Viewed by 156
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human norovirus results in about 685 million cases of disease and 200,000 deaths globally per year. Noroviruses are single-stranded positive-sense RNA, non-enveloped viruses in Caliciviridae. Most noroviruses that infect humans belong to genogroups GI and GII. Human noroviruses use different histo-blood group antigens as receptors for infection. The mutation rate of norovirus is higher than that of other RNA viruses; therefore, a person could be infected multiple times. Detailed analyses of viral genetic material as well as understanding function–structure relationships and virus–host interactions allow us to provide new insights into viral infections. Rapid and sensitive methods with which to detect and distinguish viral infectivity are critically needed. In this regard, detailed analysis and rapid as well as sensitive methods are also helpful in providing us with an improved understanding of norovirus.
In this Special Issue, we would like to invite you to submit your original research and review articles on molecular biology, epidemiology, virus–host interactions, and assay development for human norovirus (clinical or pure model submissions with biomolecular experiments are suitable).
Dr. Peng Tian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- human norovirus
- norovirus surrogates
- virus-host interaction
- viral receptors
- assay development
