Extracellular Vesicles in Microbes, Pathogens and Infectious Diseases: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is a continuation of the 2022 Special Issue “Extracellular Vesicles in Microbes, Pathogens and Infectious Diseases”.

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanosized lipid bilayer particles that are naturally released from almost all types of cells. EVs are produced as end products of secretion by both pathogenic and non-pathogenic microorganisms, including archaea, bacteria, fungi, and parasites, as a means for cell-free intercellular communication. Microbial EVs are usually involved in either quorum sensing between the same or different species, or in tuning the microenvironments to benefit the survival of microbes. In pathogenic microorganisms, their EVs modulate the host immune responses to evade elimination from the host.

Infectious diseases are disorders in humans, animals, and plants caused by pathogenic microbes. Microbial EVs, other than facilitating the survival of pathogens in the host and acting as a decoy to antibiotics as a drug resistance mechanism, can also be used for therapeutics and diagnostics for infectious diseases. They can be used as vaccine candidates, drug-targeting and RNAi communication vehicles, as well as biomarkers for disease diagnosis.

This Special Issue of IJMS is focused on extracellular vesicles in microbes, pathogens and infectious diseases. This Special Issue welcomes papers covering microbial EVs’ characterization, quantification, purification, their cargos, and the elucidation of their biogenesis and roles during infections.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Genomics and transcriptomics (including small RNA);
• Therapeutics and diagnostics in infectious diseases;
• Immunology;
• Vaccine candidate;
• Drug resistance;
• Drug targeting;
• Characterization and purifications;
• Virulence and pathogenesis;
• Host–pathogen interactions;
• Cross-species interactions;
• RNAi-mediated communications;
• Adaptation to the environment.

Dr. Franklin W.N. Chow
Dr. Russell M. Morphew
Guest Editors

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