Alphaviruses
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Invertebrate Viruses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2023) | Viewed by 32560
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I am putting together a Special Issue entitled Alphaviruses. I would like to publish reviews or short articles written by yourself or your current or former post-doctoral fellows, students, or collaborators in this Special Issue. I would like to feature your most recent work and reviews on the following:
- Small molecule therapeutics, drug discovery, and medicinal chemistry;
- Antivirals, vaccines, and antibodies;
- Animal models;
- Detection methods, imaging methods, biosurveillance, and clinical isolates;
- Viroinformatics;
- Blood-brain barrier (BBB);
- Host-pathogen interactions;
- Effects on neurons, inflammation, and cytopathic effects;
- Structural biology;
- Enzymes.
I would like to highlight some of the more neglected areas of alphaviruses such as understanding their viral code, sequence-to-symptom patterns, host-pathogen interactions, therapeutic strategies, and even some modern methods of research such as machine learning and sequence analysis (viroinformatics) in order to inspire younger generations to pursue work in virology and to recognize that there are still challenging problems ahead.
Dr. Patricia M. Legler
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- RNA viruses
- viral encephalitis
- host-pathogen
- drug discovery
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