Porcine Anti-Viral Immunity 2023
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Viruses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 275
Special Issue Editors
Interests: infection and immunity; innate immune signaling; comparative immunology; anti-viral immunity
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Interests: virology; veterinary microbiology; innate immune response; animal model; pig; vaccines; mucosal immunology; respiratory and intestinal infectious diseases
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Interests: porcine viruses; coronaviruses; vaccines; PEDV; PRRSC; mink viruses; antivirals
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: viral infection and immunity; T cell immunity; comparative immunology
Interests: porcine virus diseases; neutralizing antibody; viral infection and immunity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Domesticated pigs are not only an important food source for humans but they are also useful as experimental animal models for studying human diseases. Pigs can be infected by dozens of viruses, some of which cause significant economic losses to the swine industry, such as African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV), Porcine Respiratory Reproductive Syndrome Virus (PRRSV), Porcine Circovirus type 2 (PCV-2) and Diarrhea Coronaviruses. Others pose a potential threat to public health such as Nipah virus, Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) and Swine Influenza Virus (SIV). During co-evolution with these viruses, pigs may develop unique or special anti-viral immunity including both innate and adaptive immunity against different viruses. The innate immune response is mainly triggered by the Pattern Recognition Receptor (PRR) sensing and signaling, which subsequently initiates and shapes the adaptive immunity, including humoral immunity and cellular immunity. In general, these different immune responses act as several layers of defense and act jointly against virus infections. Understanding how pigs or host cells respond to individual porcine viruses in detail is critical for controlling and preventing these viral diseases in pigs. It may also provide comparative immunological information about human anti-viral immunity. This Special Issue will highlight both innate immune and adaptive immune responses against porcine viral infections and emphasize the dissection of the mechanisms of protective immunity as well as immune evasion by porcine viruses.
Prof. Dr. Jianzhong Zhu
Prof. Dr. François Meurens
Prof. Dr. Levon Abrahamyan
Prof. Dr. Shaobin Shang
Dr. Nanhua Chen
Dr. Wanglong Zheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- porcine viruses
- antiviral immunity
- innate immunity
- adaptive immunity
- immune evasion
