Bornaviruses 2025: News, Gaps and Future Directions
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Viruses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 72
Special Issue Editor
2. Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany
Interests: neurotropic viruses; pathogenetic principles; zoonoses; reservoirs; neuropathology
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Dear Colleagues,
During the last decade, many new and unexpected facets on bornaviruses emerged, such as the continuously increasing detection of novel bornaviruses, new reservoir and end host species, endogenous bornavirus-like (EBL) elements in eukaryote genomes as well as the alarming awareness of the zoonotic capacity of mammalian bornaviruses. Despite this enormous progress, many questions on bornavirus biology still need to be addressed in order to understand the complexity of epidemiologic aspects, transmission routes and risks, persistence strategies, and immunopathological principles. This is clearly reflected by the strikingly different outcomes of infection in mammalian reservoir and end host species, the largely unknown role of EBLs, unknown definite host spectrum or disease-inducing capacity of novel bornaviruses, and the lack of effective antiviral and curative therapy strategies.
This Special Issue welcomes all types of articles, including brief reports, original research, and reviews, that contribute to enhance the knowledge and present the latest discoveries in basic research on well-known and novel bornaviruses in any species. Special emphasis is placed on epidemiological aspects, molecular infection mechanisms, pathogenetic principles, and antiviral strategies of either bornaviruses with zoonotic capacity or avian or newly discovered viruses and hosts.
Prof. Dr. Christiane E. Herden
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bornaviruses
- zoonotic
- epidemiology
- transmission
- molecular infection mechanisms
- pathogenesis
- antiviral
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