Viral Hemorrhagic Disease
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Viruses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 1044
Special Issue Editors
Interests: host–pathogen interaction; virology; immunology; pathogenesis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Haemorrhagic fever viruses (HFVs) constitute a broad group of unrelated pathogens that include family members of the Arenaviridae, Filoviridae, Flaviviridae, Hantaviridae, Nairoviridae, and Phenuiviridae, among others. HFVs can spread to humans by rodent and insect vectors, or by direct human-to-human transmission. These viruses produce a spectrum of human illnesses ranging from mild, marginally symptomatic to life-threatening and catastrophic. Viral and host factors influencing such diametrically opposed outcomes are not well understood. Furthermore, more evidence suggests that several HFVs can persistently infect their host and re-emerge months or years after the primary infection. Such recrudescence has resulted in sexual transmission to uninfected humans. This Special Issue, entitled "Viral Hemorrhagic Disease", seeks to present state-of-the-art research on these key aspects of HFVs and serve as a reference point that increases our understanding of the HFV host–pathogen relationship and identifies intervention strategies that prevent severe outcomes. Key topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Host factors contributing to severe disease;
- Immune correlates of protection;
- Animal models;
- Persistent infections;
- Surveillance of hemorrhagic fever viruses;
- Prophylactic and therapeutic development against hemorrhagic fever viruses.
Reviews, original research, and communications are all welcome.
Dr. Joseph W. Golden
Dr. Aura R. Garrison
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- host factors contributing to severe disease
- immune correlates of protection
- animal models
- persistent infections
- surveillance of hemorrhagic fever viruses
- prophylactic and therapeutic development against hemorrhagic fever viruses
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