Recent Advances in Herpesviruses Research: What's in the Pipeline?
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Viruses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2019) | Viewed by 60698
Special Issue Editor
Interests: infectious diseases; molecular mechanisms of pharmacological action; viral diseases
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, infection with herpesviruses has become a global concern due to its great threat to public health. Herpesviruses are infectious agents belonging to the virus family Herpesviridae that cause latent and lytic infections in humans and in a wide range of animals. There are eight herpesvirus types currently known to infect humans, including Herpes simplex viruses (HSV-1 and HSV-2), varicella-zoster virus, Epstein–Barr virus, human herpesvirus 6 (variants A and B), human herpesvirus 7, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, and human cytomegalovirus. Although the efficacy of the treatments of herpesviruses infection has improved during the past two decades, the increasing use of antiviral drugs has resulted in drug resistance, which, in turn, has switched researchers’ attention toward more effective therapeutic strategies based on novel antiviral drugs associated with decreased resistance, less undesirable side effects, and various mechanisms of action. This Special Issue aims to shed light on the recent advances in both preclinical and clinical studies on herpesviruses and in therapeutic developments in the treatment of herpesviruses infection.
Dr. Sherif T. S. HassanGuest Editor
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Keywords
- herpesviruses infection
- antiviral therapeutics
- resistance
- vaccine development
- preclinical and clinical studies
- host–pathogen interactions
- viral pathogenesis