Molecular Biology of Host and Pathogen Interactions 2.0

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is a continuation of our previous Special Issue, titled “Molecular Biology of Host and Pathogen Interactions”.

Any living being is constantly exposed to microorganisms and most have no effects on their health, with diseases being the exception and not the rule. However, when a host–microorganism interaction results in damage to the host, the microorganism becomes a pathogen with implications for both human and animal health.

Microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, or parasites sustain themselves within host cells or organs on a molecular and cellular level and establish molecular mechanisms to invade, proliferate, and exploit cells for their survival. The understanding of these interactions is vital to the identification of biomarkers for diagnosis or individualized therapy of infections and is desirably driven by several independent areas of research such as molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology, cell biology, and all the omics.

The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight processes and mechanisms involved in the crosstalk between infectious agents and their hosts that may contribute at a later stage to the design of novel treatment or prevention strategies in the continuous fight against infectious diseases. We invite you to submit research articles, reviews, or short communications that together may contribute to improving the knowledge about this growing area of research.

Dr. Ana Paula Arez
Guest Editor

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• microbe
• pathogen
• virus
• bacteria
• parasite
• fungi
• infection
• disease
• interaction
• host response