Vaccines against Enveloped RNA Viruses, 2024
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "General Virology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1758
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Japanese encephalitis virus; flavivirus; porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus; arterivirus; replication; virus–host interactions; pathogenesis; vaccine
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A wide variety of viruses have posed a clear threat to human and animal health throughout history, and ongoing outbreaks of viral infections are still continuously occurring across the globe. In recent years, most viral outbreaks have been caused by a group of enveloped RNA viruses, including Zika, dengue, yellow fever, Chikungunya, severe acute respiratory syndrome, Middle East respiratory syndrome, influenza, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Rift Valley fever, Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, Hendra and Lassa viruses. These emerging and re-emerging viruses can cause severe and even lethal disease in humans and/or animals. Unlike passive preventive measures to avoid exposure to these viruses, vaccination is the most cost-effective strategy for providing long-term protective immunity. Therefore, basic and translational research on the development of vaccines against these pathogens is of high priority. This Special Issue seeks to gather manuscripts (including reviews, research articles and short communications) to highlight scientific achievements related to promising experimental vaccines against emerging and re-emerging enveloped RNA viruses, as well as old, conventional vaccines against the most widespread enveloped RNA viruses. In particular, we are interested in new vaccine platforms that are applicable to multiple pathogens. Therefore, this Special Issue will provide an open access platform for exchanging past and current vaccine research and development.
Dr. Young-Min Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- enveloped RNA viruses
- emerging viruses
- vaccines
- zika virus
- SARS-CoV-2
- influenza virus
